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CONTENTS
CONTEXT
Biographical History
Archival History
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CONTENT AND STRUCTURE
Scope and Content
System of Arrangement
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CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE
Access
Language
Finding Aid
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CONTEXT
Biographical history
James Dooge was born in Birkenhead, England in 1922. After his family moved to
Dublin he went on to study in University College Dublin, where he was awarded the
Pierce Malone Scholarship. Once qualified as an engineer, Dooge worked firstly with
the Office of Public Works and then, in 1946, with the Electricity Supply Board. A
period of study at the University of Iowa in the mid-1950s led to an MA. In 1958,
Dooge became Professor of Civil Engineering at University College Cork and in
1970, he moved to University College Dublin. In the 1980s Dooge also spent time
working at the Department of Engineering Hydrology at University College Galway.
Dooge is often credited with turning hydrology into the science it is today, being
instrumental in the establishment of the International Commission on Water
Resource Systems. He served as its President for several years. As well as being an
engineer and hydrologist, he was also a climatologist and served as the chairman of
the Scientific Advisory Committee of the World Climate Impact Advisory Committee.
Apart from his illustrious academic career, Dooge led an active political life. From
1961 to 1977 he was a Senator, also serving as the Seanad’s Cathaoirleach (1973–
77). Dooge was an influential member of the Fine Gael Party and a close associate
of Garret FitzGerald’s, working closely with him in the reorganisation of the Fine
Gael Party during the late 1970s. As Cathaoirleach, Dooge was one of the three
members of the Presidential Commission, and would be called upon (along with the
Chief Justice and the Cathaoirleach of the Dáil) to serve the powers of the President
should he or she resign or die. Incredibly, this happened twice during Dooge’s term,
firstly with the death of Erskine Childers in 1974, and then with Cearbhall Ó
Dálaigh’s resignation in 1976.
Dooge announced his retirement from politics in 1977 to devote more time to his
academic career. In 1981, however, he returned to the Seanad. He was a member of
the Fine Gael team that negotiated the coalition deal with the Labour Party in 1981,
and was subsequently appointed by FitzGerald as Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Although many considered him an inspired choice for the role, it was short-lived as
the 22nd Dáil lasted for only 252 days. Dooge declined appointment to the new
coalition formed in the 1982 general election.
In 1984 a new political role took form for Dooge. Ireland’s Presidency of the
European Community coincided with a renewed interest amongst member states for
further European integration. At a meeting at Fontainebleau, France in 1984, the
decision was made to form an Ad Hoc Committee on Institutional Affairs, to have
representatives from all member states convene and look at potential avenues and
methods for European integration. FitzGerald decided to appoint Dooge to this
Committee, not only as Ireland’s representative but as chairman. This was met with
pressure from several other member states for the appointment of someone with a
greater international profile, especially from West Germany, who pushed for the
appointment of their former President, Karl Carstens. Nonetheless Dooge remained
in the position, and the Committee met throughout late 1984 and early 1985 before
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producing a final report, often referred to as the Dooge Report, in March 1985. This
report is credited with paving the way for the Single European Act and the
Maastricht Treaty, with much of the language used in the latter being the same.
Dooge maintained his commitment and enthusiasm for European integration after
the Ad Hoc Committee with his longstanding membership of the Irish Council for
the European Movement, of which he became Honorary President. He also served as
President of the Royal Irish Academy from 1987 to 1990.
Dooge received several awards for his work in the fields of engineering and
international affairs. In 1986 he was awarded the William Bowie Medal by the
American Geophysical Union for ‘outstanding contribution to fundamental
geophysics and for unselfish cooperation in research’. The World Meteorological
Organization awarded him their highest prize in 2001, the International
Meteorological Prize. In 2000 he was made an International Fellow at the Royal
Academy of Engineering, and in 2005 was awarded the Prince Philip Medal by the
Duke of Edinburgh in recognition of his status as ‘an outstanding figure in the field
of hydrology’. Also in 2005, the Royal Irish Academy awarded him their gold medal,
presented by President Mary McAleese.
Jim Dooge died at home in Dublin on 20 August 2010. Predeceased by his wife Roni
and daughter Meliosa, he was survived by his sons Colm and Diarmuid, and
daughters Clíona and Dara.
Archival history
These papers were deposited by Professor Dooge in five tranches between 1987 and
1989, with the sixth and final tranche deposited by his family in 2012.
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CONTENT AND STRUCTURE
Scope and Content
Dooge’s Senate career: election material, documents relating to Senate debates on
extradition and on Senate reform.
Papers relating to Dooge’s chairmanship of the Ad Hoc Committee for Institutional
Affairs to the European Council (also referred to as the Dooge Committee),
including:
Background material provided by various sources to Dooge for research purposes
after he had been asked to head the Committee, including documents relating to
prior committees asked to look at the same issues; establishment of the Committee;
reports and notes of meetings of the Committee; working documents, consisting
mainly of submissions from Committee members; documents relating to the issue
of Irish neutrality in the context of the Committee’s work; and the report of the
Committee and reactions to same. An initial survey of this material was completed
by Dermot Scott in 1993, and several files with the designation ‘DC’ (Dooge
Committee) were created. These files have been kept intact and are included here
with the A series and C series of Committee working documents.
Papers relating to Dooge’s tenure as Minister for Foreign Affairs (MFA), 1981–82,
including:
Anglo-Irish relations: Anglo-Irish Joint Studies; briefing documents prepared for the
MFA by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) ahead of meetings with British
officials; background information, notes, reports and correspondence relating to the
1981 hunger strikes; agendas, papers and memoranda for the Northern Ireland
Policy Review Conferences; other general Northern Ireland matters.
Ireland and the European Community: briefing documents, minutes and notes of
the European Council meeting in November 1981; briefs and notes relating to
European cooperation and to Irish neutrality.
Ministerial meetings: material relating to meetings of the Security Committee;
general notes taken by the MFA at various meetings.
Other DFA concerns: general concerns such as routine inter-departmental briefings
and briefs on international situations; correspondence with Ambassadors and
embassies (these were numbered 1–41 and this arrangement has been retained,
although some documents are missing); papers relating to development aid; papers
relating to Irish submissions and involvement at the United Nations, mainly the
General Assembly.
Ministerial correspondence, mainly letters of congratulations on Dooge’s
appointment as MFA. This file has been kept in its original order.
Ministerial speeches.
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Between July 1981 and September 1981 Dooge is referred to within these papers as
‘MFA’ or ‘MFA Designate’. From October 1981 to February 1982 he is referred to
solely as ‘MFA’. Correspondence is generally copy (and in many cases, provided to
Dooge for reference and research purposes) unless stated as being original.
Fine Gael: general party reports; policy documents; election materials and notes;
some party constitutional material.
Irish Council for the European Movement (ICEM): minutes and invitations to
meetings; reports by ICEM and other relative documents; papers relating to events
planned by ICEM; materials produced by ICEM for European elections and treaty
referenda; general correspondence.
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System of arrangement
1 SEANAD ÉIREANN
1.1 1967–77
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1.2 1981–87
1.2.1 Elections
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1.2.2 Extradition
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1.2.3 Senate Reform
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1.2.4 Ad Hoc Committee for Institutional Affairs to the European Council
(Dooge Committee)
1.2.4.1 Background
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1.2.4.2 Establishment of the Committee
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1.2.4.3 Meetings
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1.2.4.4 Working Documents and Correspondence
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1.2.4.5 Irish Neutrality
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1.2.4.6 Reports and Reactions
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2 MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
2.1 Anglo-Irish Relations
2.1.1
2.1.2
2.1.3
2.1.4
2.1.5
Anglo-Irish Joint Studies
Meetings with PM and NI Secretary of State
Hunger Strikes
Northern Ireland Policy Review Conferences
Other Northern Ireland matters, 1981–82
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2.2 Ireland and the European Community
2.2.1 European Council, 1981
2.2.2 European Cooperation and Neutrality
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2.3 Ministerial Meetings
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2.4 Other
2.4.1
2.4.2
2.4.3
2.4.4
Department of Foreign Affairs Concerns
General Concerns
Communications with Ambassadors
Development Aid
United Nations
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2.5 Ministerial Correspondence
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2.6 Ministerial Speeches
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3 FINE GAEL
3.1 General Party matters
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3.2 Party Policy
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3.3 Party Strategy and Elections
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3.4 Party Organisation
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4 IRISH COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN MOVEMENT
4.1 Meetings
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4.2 Reports and Other Council Documents
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4.3 Seminars, Conferences and Lectures
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4.4 European Elections and Treaties
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4.5 Correspondence
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CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE
Access
Available by appointment to holders of a UCDA reader’s ticket. Produced for consultation in
digital format.
Language
English, with some French and Irish.
Finding Aid
Descriptive catalogue.
DESCRIPTION CONTROL
Archivist’s Note
This descriptive catalogue was prepared by Sarah Poutch in February 2015.
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Professor Jim Dooge Papers
1. SEANAD ÉIREANN
1.1 1967–77
P270/1
1961–63
6 items
Seanad Éireann elections
File of election material relating to Jim Dooge’s campaigns to be
elected to the Seanad in 1961, 1965 and 1973. Consists of leaflets
outlining Dooge’s qualifications, a typewritten note from Professor
Bernard Moran of the Department of Business Administration in
UCD to MBA graduates backing Dooge, and a typewritten note from
Dooge to all Engineering graduates requesting their support.
P270/2
September 1973–April 1977
22 items
Cathaoirleach correspondence
File of correspondence sent to Dooge in his capacity as Cathaoirleach
of Seanad Éireann, such as itineraries of parliamentary delegations
from the Netherlands, Denmark and Egypt, a letter from Francesco
Cosentino in relation to an invitation extended to Dooge to attend the
second Conference of Presidents of European Parliamentary
Assemblies (17 March 1975, 4pp), a newsletter on legislative
activities from the Council of Europe (August 1975, 16pp), and
routine letters relating to his position as Cathaoirleach and as a
Senator.
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2–3 May 1974
3pp
Luxembourg Symposium on the proposed European Institute
Three page typewritten extract from notes taken at the Symposium,
including remarks made by Edgar Fauré, President of the French
National Assembly.
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P270/4
7 January 1975
4 items
Presidents of Parliaments Conference
Material relating to the Conference held in Paris, consisting of a copy
of the opening remarks made by Edgar Fauré, a list of attendees, an
analytical report of the proceedings of the Conference (in French),
and eleven pages of handwritten notes taken during the Conference.
P270/5
16 January 1976
2 items
Conference on the Development of Democratic Institutions in
Europe
A draft programme for the Conference, to be held on 21–23 April
1976, and seven pages of Dooge’s handwritten notes on his fellow
attendees, including Alain Doher, Edgar Fauré, and Sir Frederick
Elwyn Jones.
1.2 1981–87
1.2.1 Elections
P270/6
February–April 1982
26 items
Seanad Éireann election February 1982
File of correspondence relating to the February 1982 Seanad
elections, mainly consisting of letters requesting support from
various bodies and individuals, correspondence between Dooge and
the Institution of Engineers of Ireland on the possibility of his
running as the candidate of the Institution on the Industrial and
Commercial Panel and his subsequent withdrawal, lists of contact
information for possible supporters, and letters of thanks drafted
after his election.
P270/7
October 1982–February 1983
24 items
Seanad Éireann election November 1982
File of correspondence relating to the November 1982 Seanad
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elections, mainly consisting of letters requesting support from
various bodies and individuals, lists of contact information for
possible supporters, an analysis of Fine Gael voting strength in the
election, and letters of thanks drafted after his election.
1.2.2 Extradition
P270/8
June–July 1982
9 items
Extradition
Material relating to Senator Shane Ross’ Seanad motion on
extradition between Northern Ireland and the Republic.
Includes:
 copy letter from M.D. Nally, General Secretary of the Association
of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors, to Ross outlining that
Association’s position on Northern Irish extradition (15 June,
3pp);
 copy of Dooge’s proposed amendment to Senator Ross’ motion (5
July, 1pp);
 transcript of an interview of Dooge by Joe O’Brien on RTÉ Radio 1
on 8 July on the topic of extradition (8 July, 4pp);
 statement by Dooge released after the defeat of the motion (8 July,
1pp);
 ten pages of handwritten notes on extradition (not dated).
1.2.3 Senate Reform
P270/9
26 March 1986
3pp
Fine Gael Group on Senate Reform
Minutes of the first meeting of this group, the aim of which is stated
to be ‘to improve the prestige of the Senate’, and two pages of
handwritten notes from the meeting.
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1.2.4 Ad Hoc Committee for Institutional Affairs to the European
Council (Dooge Committee)
1.2.4.1 Background
P270/10
25 March 1976
52pp
Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) memorandum on the
Tindemans Report on European Union
Memorandum supplied to Dooge for research purposes after his
appointment as the chair of the Ad Hoc Committee. The
memorandum summarises the report, prepared by the Belgian Prime
Minister Leo Tindemans, and analyses the potential impact on Irish
interests. The
memorandum also explores the
potential
constitutional ramifications should Tindemans’ proposals be
adopted, and suggests Irish positions on specific areas of
consideration.
P270/11
February–October 1979
2 items
Notes on meeting between the Taoiseach and Minister for
Foreign Affairs and the ‘Three Wise Men’
Sixteen pages of notes detailing a meeting between Taoiseach Jack
Lynch and Minister for Foreign Affairs Michael O’Kennedy with the
‘Three Wise Men’ (Barend Biesheuvel, Edmund Dell, and Robert
Marjolin), a committee of three who were commissioned by the
European Council to write a report considering ‘adjustments to the
machinery and procedures of the Community institutions’ (12
February). The meeting, also attended by D. Nally and W. Kirwan of
the Department of the Taoiseach and K. Heaslip of the DFA, is noted
as taking place following the receipt by the Taoiseach of a letter from
French President Giscaird d’Estaing suggesting a review of
Community procedures. Lynch states that Ireland favours the
maintenance and strengthening of the existing Community
institutions and would wish to see the minimum of basic change. He
points out Irish concerns with the widening of the disparity between
the centre and the periphery of the Community, and illustrates this
with the example of Ireland’s low rate of corporation tax being
‘frowned upon by the Commission’ while better-off countries are
allowed to offer enormous aid for industrial projects. The notes
include other details of the Irish government’s concerns within the
European framework, such as larger countries carrying more weight
in the European Council, the number of Commissioners assigned to
each country, and majority voting. Also included are the committee’s
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remarks on their role and the terms of reference of their report, as
well as a copy of their full report which was published in October
1979.
P270/12
[1980]
9pp
DFA memorandum on the Report of the ‘Three Wise Men’
Memorandum written after the publication of the report which gives
background information to the formation of the committee, its
mandate, their work process, and also a list of recommendations of a
political nature arising from the report.
P270/13
September–October 1979
2 items
Proposals for Reform of the Commission of the European
Communities and Its Services (Spierenburg Report)
Copy of the report made at the request of the Commission by an
Independent Review Body under the Chairmanship of Dirk
Spierenburg (24 September, 45pp) and a brief summary of the
completed report, prepared by the Department of the Taoiseach (8
October, 4pp).
P270/14
21 November 1980
5pp
Analysis of the development of the role of the European
Commission
Analysis of the role of the Commission in view of the Spierenburg and
Three Wise Men Reports, written by Siobhán Ní Fhaolain of the
Economic Division of the DFA.
P270/15
9 September 1983
13pp
Draft commentary on the Spinelli Resolution
A draft commentary on the Spinelli Resolution, a motion brought by
Altiero Spinelli in the European Parliament concerning the substance
of the preliminary draft Treaty to establish the European Union
(presumably created by the DFA as its structure and content are
similar to the other background material previously catalogued). The
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commentary is divided into brief sections outlining Ireland’s position
with regard to aspects of the Resolution’s text, such as the
institutions of the proposed Union, civil and political rights, the legal
structure of the Union, conjunctural policy, financial mechanisms,
sectoral
policies,
agriculture
and
fisheries,
transport,
telecommunications, research and development, industry, energy,
cultural policy, external relations of an economic nature, diplomatic
and political relations, and the relationship of the proposed
European Union to the European Community.
P270/16
November 1981–January 1983
20 items
File of material relating to the Genscher-Colombo Plan (1981)
Assorted material associated with the Plan of 1981 which proposed
an extension of the European Community’s powers into areas such
as foreign policy, defence, and justice, together with a revival of the
role of majority voting.
Includes:
 an extract from the Plan which consists of a draft statement on
questions of economic integration ([4 November 1981], 2pp);
 an extract from the Plan which consists of a draft European
Act, outlining the aims which will ‘consolidate the political and
economic progress already achieved towards the European
Union’ (4 November 1981, 12pp);
 extracts from Ministerial interventions illustrating the Irish
government’s general attitude to European Union ([1981], 3pp);
 minutes of fourteen meetings of an Ad Hoc Group on the draft
European Act, with individual member states represented,
discussing the draft Act formulated by Genscher-Colombo and
held between January 1982 and February 1983 (14 items);
 report to the Ministers for Foreign Affairs by the Chairman of
the Ad Hoc Working Party on European Union, consisting of a
draft European Act based on the Genscher-Colombo proposals
(14 May 1982, 28pp);
 minutes of a meeting of Ministers and Secretaries of State in
Brussels to consider a draft Solemn Declaration on European
Union, based on the Genscher-Colombo proposals, the Irish
delegation being led by Minister of State J. O’Keeffe of the DFA
(15 March 1983, 6pp).
P270/17
19 June 1983
2 items
Declarations made on the signature of the Solemn Declaration
on European Union
Joint and unilateral declarations with reference to certain
paragraphs of the Solemn Declaration, recorded in the minutes of a
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European Council meeting held in Stuttgart from 17–19 June.
Includes text of the Declaration.
P270/18
22 June 1983
7pp
Statement by Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald on the European
Council meeting in Stuttgart, 17–19 June
Statement to Dáil Éireann on the meeting where the Solemn
Declaration on European Union was signed. FitzGerald and Minister
for Foreign Affairs Peter Barry were the Irish signatories.
P270/19
16 September 1983
49pp
Letter to Antoin Mac Unfraidh
Unsigned letter to Mac Unfraidh, Secretary in the DFA, on the voting
which took place during the European Parliament’s adoption of a
draft Treaty to establish the European Union on 14 September.
Includes the text of the resolution.
P270/20
19 September 1983
22pp
Address by Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald at the College of Europe
Address delivered at the opening ceremony of the academic year at
the College in Bruges, in which FitzGerald speaks of Ireland’s role
history in the European Community and the ‘current institutional
impasse in the Community’.
P270/21
July–August 1984
3 items
Summaries and analysis of the draft Treaty establishing the
European Union
The summaries include all six parts of the draft Treaty and also
summarises the Taoiseach’s meeting with European Parliament
President Dankert on 12 July. The analysis pays particular attention
to the differences between the proposed Union and the existing
Treaties, as well as on elements of special interest or concern to
Ireland. Prepared by the Political Division of the DFA.
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P270/22
1 August [1984]
5pp
Letter
Handwritten letter to Dooge which discusses previous attempts at
bringing European political integration to fruition, including the
Spaak Committee, the Three Wise Men Committee, and the Action
Committee for a Limited States of Europe. Signature is unreadable
but begins with ‘M’, and the address is 88 Merrion Square.
1.2.4.2 Establishment of the Committee
P270/23
3 October 1983
3pp
Letter from Garret FitzGerald to Pierre Pfimlin
The Taoiseach writes to the President of the European Parliament to
explain the delay in inaugurating the work of the Ad Hoc Committee
as well as that of the Committee for a People’s Europe.
P270/24
25–26 June 1984
10pp
Conclusions of the Presidency from the European Council
meeting at Fontainebleau
Details of decisions adopted at the Council meeting on 25 and 26
June which were left in abeyance at its meeting in Brussels on 19
and 20 March 1984. These include decisions related to budgetary
imbalances, resources and enlargement, financing of the 1984
budget, social policy, and the formation of the Committee for a
People’s Europe and the Ad Hoc Committee on Institutional Affairs.
P270/25
29 June 1984
4pp
Dispatch to Deputy Secretary of the DFA from the Irish
Ambassador to the Netherlands
Details Dutch political reactions to events at the meeting, including
the Ad Hoc Committee.
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P270/26
2 July 1984
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Aide-Mémoire
Details the Dutch reservations regarding the Ad Hoc Committee,
containing an extract from a letter from the Netherlands Minister to
Foreign Affairs to his French colleague. This outlines his ‘surprise
and disappointment’ at the text of the conclusions reached by the
European Council at Fontainebleau. This copy has several
handwritten annotations which are difficult to decipher due to the
poor quality of the facsimile.
P270/27
2 July 1984
2pp
Note on the nomination of Jim Dooge for chair of the Ad Hoc
Committee
Copy of a brief note signed by [G.F.] detailing how Declan Kelly,
Private Secretary to the Taoiseach, had informed them that the
Taoiseach had decided to nominate Senator Dooge to chair the
Committee. Includes the text of Section 7 of the European Presidency
conclusions of the Fontainebleau European Council, which outlines
the Committee’s function as ‘to make suggestions for the
improvement of the operation of European cooperation’.
P270/28
7 July 1984
3pp
Notes on a meeting between the Minister for Foreign Affairs and
the French Foreign Minister
Summary of a meeting of the Irish Minister with his French
counterpart Claude Cheysson in Cork, during which the workings of
the proposed Ad Hoc Committee were discussed, and also attended
by Secretary General of the European Council Niels Ersboell. Ersboell
(in a private discussion) expressed his opinion that the chair of the
Committee ought to be a prominent European political figure, and
mentions the name of [Étienne] Davignon, Vice President of the
European Commission, as a very suitable person.
P270/29
9 July 1984
5pp
‘Background brief for the President’
Brief on the institutional problems connected with the enlargement of
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the European Community. The document is headed ‘Meeting with the
Irish Presidency on 9 July 1984’ but the creator is not otherwise
identified.
P270/30
10 July 1984
5pp
Letter from Max Kohnstamm to Garret FitzGerald
The member of the former Action Committee for the United States of
Europe (Monnet Committee) writes to the Taoiseach to remind him
that he and some other members of the Monnet Committee ‘are
considering forming a group of the same kind’ as the proposed Ad
Hoc Committee. Along with the copy letter, two papers are included.
The first is a copy of the original letter ‘from Helmut Schmidt and Leo
Tindemans to the persons they wished to associate with this
undertaking’, and the second a short summary of the group’s
objectives. Kohnstamm looks forward to seeing FitzGerald in Dublin
on Monday 23 July and ‘to obtaining your advice… in relation to
possible Irish participation’.
P270/31
11–20 July 1984
3 items
Correspondence between Garret FitzGerald and Ruud Lubbers
Copy letter from the Taoiseach to the Prime Minister of the
Netherlands proposing specific terms of reference for the Ad Hoc
Committee, and proposing Dooge for the chair of the Committee. An
aide-mémoire detailing Lubbers’ response (via G.M.V. van Aardenne)
is included. Lubbers welcomes the initiative, making some comments
on the proposed mandate, but ‘given the importance of the choice’ of
Chairman of the Committee, ‘we have to reserve our position’ on that
matter at the present time. Also included is a telexed dispatch to the
Deputy Secretary of the DFA from the Irish Ambassador to the
Netherlands (20 July, 2pp). The Ambassador gives his comments on
Lubbers’ reply to the Taoiseach. He feels that ‘the Dutch are
convinced that institutional questions should be given highest
priority’, and their reservation of judgement on Dooge’s possible
appointment is because they are ‘anxious to keep open the possibility
of accepting a ‘spectacular’ candidate’. He finishes by saying that
former President of West Germany Karl Carstens ‘has figured in
Brussels rumours’ in this regard. The file has a cover note from
‘Declan’ to Dooge (20 July, 1p).
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P270/32
11–17 July 1984
4pp
Correspondence between Garret FitzGerald and Poul Schluter
Letter from the Taoiseach to the Prime Minister of Denmark
proposing specific terms of reference for the Ad Hoc Committee, and
proposing Dooge for the chair of the Committee. Schluter replies to
say that he thinks ‘it is best to avoid a further and more specific
terms of reference than the text in the Presidency Conclusions from
the European Council Meeting at Fontainebleau’.
P270/33
20 July 1984
3pp
Telex from Margaret Thatcher to Garret FitzGerald
The British Prime Minister sends the Taoiseach a telex, via the
British Embassy, regarding the composition and terms of reference of
the two committees to be set up as a result of the Fontainebleau
European Council. She welcomes the suggestion that Dooge should
chair the Ad Hoc Committee, and makes a recommendation that
‘once the committee has reached agreement on subjects where action
in common is thought to be desirable, it can go on to consider
whether they should be done under the existing treaties’. Includes
cover letter from R.F. Stimson, Chargé d’Affaires at the British
Embassy in Dublin, to Dermot Nally, Secretary to the government at
the Department of the Taoiseach.
P270/34
24 July 1984
3pp
Telex from the DFA to Declan Kelly
The Deputy Secretary of the Department writes to the Private
Secretary to the Taoiseach on the drafting of a text on suggested
terms of reference for the Ad Hoc Committee. The draft text is
included.
P270/35
25 July 1984
4pp
Speech by Garret FitzGerald
Text of a speech delivered by the Taoiseach to the inaugural session
of the European parliament in Strasbourg, in which he speaks about
the decision to establish the Ad Hoc Committee.
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26 July 1984
2pp
Letter from Andreas G. Papandreou to Garret FitzGerald
Letter from the Greek Prime Minister to the Taoiseach in response to
the latter’s contact with Papandreou regarding the Ad Hoc
Committee. Papandreou approves overall of the Taoiseach’s proposals
but feels these efforts ‘should be applied with the prospect of further
economic convergence and cohesion’. Includes a cover letter from
Panayotis Tsounis, Greek Ambassador to Ireland, to Sean Donlon,
Secretary at the DFA.
P270/37
26–28 July 1984
4pp
Briefing note for visit of Danish Foreign Minister
A briefing note prepared by ‘Economic I’ on the visit of Danish
Foreign Minister (Uffe Ellemann-Jensen) on the topic of the Ad Hoc
Committee and Danish concerns about the terms of reference for the
Committee.
P270/38
27 July 1984
1p
Letter from Damien Boyle to Jim Dooge
Cover letter for material sent by Boyle from the DFA to Dooge which
is ‘relevant to the mandate ‘of the Ad Hoc Committee. These are listed
as the Tindemans Report, the Spierenburg Report, Report of the
Committee of Three, the Genscher-Colombo Proposals, the European
Parliament’s Draft Treaty on European Resolution, President
Francois Mitterrand’s address to the European Parliament, and the
British papers on the future of Europe. The documents are not
included here but some are represented elsewhere in these papers.
P270/39
30 July 1984
1p
Letter from Jacques Santer to Garret FitzGerald
The Prime Minister of Luxembourg replies to the Taoiseach’s letter of
11 July. He broadly agrees with the terms of reference suggested by
FitzGerald for the Ad Hoc Committee but suggests that meetings take
place in Luxembourg instead of Brussels, or that the location should
be alternated.
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31 July 1984
8pp
Notes on a meeting between Garret FitzGerald and Jacques
Delors
Notes on a meeting held between the Taoiseach and the PresidentDesignate of the European Commission over three and a half hours
and ranging over many Community issues. The notes are covered by
an original letter from George J. Shaw, Private Secretary to the
Taoiseach, to Dooge.
P270/41
1 August 1984
1p
Editorial from the Europe Agence Internationale d’Information
pour la Presse
Editorial written by Emanuele Gazzo on the 1955 Spaak Committee
and asking ‘can the same experiment be repeated in the same way or
in a similar way today?’
P270/42
7 August 1984
2pp
Formal invitation to Jim Dooge to chair the Ad Hoc Committee
Original signed letter from Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald to Dooge, in
which he outlines the background to the Committee’s formation,
explains the terms of reference and invites Dooge to ‘act as my
representative and as Chairman of the Committee for the duration of
its work’.
P270/43
8 August 1984
3pp
Telex from Bettino Craxi to Garret FitzGerald
A telex sent via the Italian Embassy in Ireland from the Italian Prime
Minister nominating Mauro Ferri MEP as the Italian representative to
the Ad Hoc Committee. The telex is forwarded by Lorenzo Tozzoli,
Ambassador of Italy in Ireland, and he encloses curriculum vitae of
Ferri.
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10 August 1984
4pp
Letter from Francois Mitterrand to Garret FitzGerald
Sent via the French Embassy in Ireland (a cover letter from Marcel
Rey at the Embassy is included), Mitterrand welcomes the
appointment of Dooge as Committee Chairman and confirms that
former minister Maurice Faure will be the French appointee. Written
in French.
P270/45
10 August 1984
1p
Telephone call from Horst Teltschik
Memorandum detailing a call received by the Department of the
Taoiseach from the Foreign Policy and Security Advisor to Chancellor
Helmut Kohl. Teltschik sends a telex to the Taoiseach that the
Germans wish to nominate former President Karl Carstens to sit on
the Ad Hoc Committee as the German representative. As Carstens
would be the highest ranking member of the Committee, Chancellor
Kohl was ‘interested in the Chairmanship very much’.
P270/46
24 August 1984
2pp
Letter from Gaston Thorn to Garret FitzGerald
Letter from the President of the European Commission, sent by Jean
Durieux of the Commission to Andrew O’Rourke, Permanent
Representative of Ireland to the European Communities, to be
forwarded to FitzGerald. Thorn informs FitzGerald that Frans
Andriessen, Member of the Commission, will participate in the work
of the Ad Hoc Committee.
P270/47
31 August 1984
1p
Telex from Garret FitzGerald to Helmut Kohl
Message sent via the Irish Embassy in Bonn, in which FitzGerald
says he is ‘grateful for [Kohl’s] understanding of our position with
regard to the Chairmanship of the Committee on Institutional
Affairs’. He goes on to discuss the composition of the Committee and
feels that due to ‘the delicacy of the issue involved… it would be
preferable for me to have contact directly with a number of the other
heads of government’.
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31 August 1984
2pp
Arrangements for the inaugural meeting of the Ad Hoc
Committee
Document outlining the logistical issues around the inaugural
meeting of the Committee, to be held at the Charlemagne Building in
Brussels on 6 September. Prepared by Frank Sheridan, Economic
Division of the DFA, and the original is noted as having been sent to
the Deputy Secretary.
P270/49
31 August–3 September 1984
2pp
Postponement of the inaugural meeting of the Ad Hoc
Committee
Telex transmitted from the Irish Embassy in London regarding the
postponement of the first meeting of the Committee due to ‘the
Carstens problem’ (3 September). Also included is a handwritten
memorandum by George Shaw stating that the British Embassy in
Bonn has been informed by the German Foreign Office that the
meeting had been cancelled pending a revision on its Chairmanship
by the Foreign Affairs Council. An additional note is written below by
J. [Fogarty?] describing a phone call with the German Ambassador
regarding the fact that the Taoiseach had informed the Chancellor of
a postponement due to a desire to raise the level of participation in
the Committee, rather than on the issue of Chairmanship (31
August). The handwritten memos are signed by W.P. Gallagher.
P270/50
3 September 1984
1p
Telex from Irish Ambassador to Denmark to Deputy Secretary of
the DFA
Telex in which the Ambassador says he was told by Otto Moeller of
an approach by the German Embassy in Denmark to support Karl
Carstens as Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee. However, the Danes
will support Dooge’s Chairmanship for several reasons which are
detailed, including that small members states should support one
another, and that the German approach to oust the Irish ‘was a piece
of cheek’.
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5 September 1984
1p
Letter from Frank Sheridan of the Economic Division of the DFA
to Dooge
Holograph cover letter for copies of curriculum vitae of seven of the
nominees for the Ad Hoc Committee (these documents are not
included). Sheridan also discusses a change of location for the
inaugural meeting of the Committee.
P270/52
6 September 1984
3pp
Editorial from the Europe Agence Internationale d’Information
pour la Presse
Editorial written by Emanuele Gazzo and entitled ‘A Daunting
Inauguration to the Spaak Committee Mark 2’, in which Gazzo
discusses the postponement of the first meeting of the Ad Hoc
Committee due to the ‘Chairmanship problem’. A recent interview
with Leo Tindemans is quoted, where Tindemans seems to suggest
that the Committee ought to elect its own chair, rather than being led
by the head of a national delegation. The decision to appoint Dooge
as chair is described as being contested by Germany, who are also
proposing that the Committee elect its chairperson and are ‘putting
forward the name of Karl Carstens, former FRG President’
P270/53
10 September 1984
2pp
Letter from Garret FitzGerald to Francois Mitterrand
Signed copy of a letter sent by the Taoiseach to President Mitterrand
letting him know the Irish position with regard to the Ad Hoc
Committee. He informs Mitterrand of his suggestion to Chancellor
Kohl that Carstens should serve as President of the two Ad Hoc
Committees established at Fontainebleau and that, if necessary, he
could preside over meetings of either that he attended. Kohl was
unwilling to accept this suggestion and also expressed concern at the
calibre of some of the national delegates. While FitzGerald asked
other member governments whether they would like to review their
nominations, this invitation was not accepted. He has thus decided
to ask Dooge to call the first meeting of the Committee as soon as
possible.
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10 September 1984
3pp
Telex from Garret FitzGerald to Helmut Kohl
Message from the Taoiseach to the German Chancellor, transmitted
via the Irish Embassy in Bonn, in which he informs Kohl of his
unsuccessful consultations with other member states regarding their
nominations to the Committee. As this initiative was not successful,
FitzGerald will be asking Dooge to call the first meeting of the
Committee as soon as possible. A signed copy of this letter is also
included.
P270/55
11 September 1984
4pp
Discussion by Ministers at a European Political Cooperation
meeting
Notes of a discussion during lunch of a meeting, at which the
Chairmanship of the Ad Hoc Committee for a People’s Europe was
discussed. Hans-Dietrich Genscher tries to re-open discussion on the
Chairmanship of the Ad Hoc Committee for Institutional Affairs by
disagreeing with a suggestion by Minister for Foreign Affairs Peter
Barry that the former ought to elect its own chairperson. Genscher
takes the line that ‘since the Presidency had appointed the Chairman
of the first Committee, they should do likewise in the case of the
second Committee and take responsibility for the outcome of the
work of both’. He states later that the results will be ‘in the hands of
the Irish Presidency’.
P270/56
12 September 1984
2pp
Letter from Walter P. Kirwan to Jim Kirby
Original, signed letter from the Assistant Secretary of the Department
of the Taoiseach to Kirby in the Department of Justice, who had
enquired about the terms of reference of the Ad Hoc Committee.
P270/57
12 September 1984
5pp
Telex from the Irish Ambassador to the Netherlands to the
Deputy Secretary in the DFA
Telex transmitted via the Irish Embassy in The Hague, reporting a
speech made by Dutch State Secretary van Eekelen at a lunch for
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European Community ambassadors. Secretary van Eekelen
commented on the delay in convening the Ad Hoc Committee and ‘the
deadlock’ which caused it. He ‘recalled that Ireland proposed
Professor Dooge as Chairman of the Committee and the NL accepted
while putting down a marker as regards the possibility of finding a
Chairman “more experienced in European Affairs”’. The telex is
signed by Deputy Secretary P. Gallagher.
P270/58
13 September 1984
2pp
Telex from the Irish Ambassador to Germany to the Deputy
Secretary in the DFA
Telex transmitted from the Irish Embassy in Bonn reporting, an
exchange in a Bundestag debate which related to the Ad Hoc
Committee. Chancellor Kohl is quoted as saying that he has ‘in the
last few days received an instructive lesson... it has been shown in
the nomination of the members of the Committee that a considerable
number of our European partners were not prepared to nominate
independent personalities but that one tried from the start to put a
group together from which no European inspiration… would come’.
The transmission is signed by John Clarke, Deputy Secretary.
P270/59
14 September 1984
3pp
Telegram from Helmut Kohl to Garret FitzGerald
Text of a telegram from Chancellor Kohl, transmitted via Dr Peter
Dassel. Kohl writes that ‘the Committee currently emerging in no way
matches the body I advocated at Fontainebleau… I do not believe the
Committee now envisaged will produce major initiatives’. He finishes
the letter by saying that ‘apparently the forces within the Community
who wish to slow down or even completely curb any progress towards
political integration are stronger than I had assumed’. The German
original and a courtesy translation are both included as well as
Dassel’s cover letter.
P270/60
18 September 1984
3pp
Letter from the Irish Ambassador to Germany to Christopher
Fogarty
The Ambassador writes to the Deputy Secretary in the DFA noting
two points on Chancellor Kohl’s recent remarks on the Ad Hoc
Committee. He states that the problems with the Committee have
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‘exposed the Chancellor domestically to charges of ineptitude’ and
that ‘if the work of the Dooge Committee does not evolve in directions
desired by the Chancellor, he has staked out ground for future
criticism’.
P270/61
25 September 1984
5pp
Terms of reference of the Ad Hoc Committee on Institutional
Affairs
Details of the proposed terms of reference for the Committee.
P270/62
Not dated
1p
Announcement of the members of the Ad Hoc Committee and its
inaugural meeting
Press release by the DFA announcing the appointment of the named
members of the Committee and the date of their first meeting, which
is to be in Brussels on 28 September 1984.
P270/63
Not dated
2pp
Tasks of the Ad Hoc Committee
Details of the tasks of the Committee as decided at Fontainebleau,
the primary of which is ‘to make suggestions for improved
functioning of “European Cooperation”’.
P270/64
Not dated
9pp
Notes on the background to the Ad Hoc Committee
File of handwritten notes by Dooge on the background to the
formation of the Committee.
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Not dated
8pp
Notes on the background to the Ad Hoc Committee
File of handwritten notes by Dooge on the background to the
formation of the Committee, mentioning the Solemn Declaration on
European Union, the meeting at Fontainebleau, and the various
reports which preceded the Declaration.
P270/66
22 October 1981–6 November 1984
36 items
Briefing supplied by Government Departments and other bodies
A file of material briefing Dooge before the commencement of the
work of the Ad Hoc Committee, originally stored in a manila folder.
Includes:
 extract from Minister’s speech to the Dáil on the 17th and 18th
Reports on Developments in the European Communities (22
October 1981, 9pp);
 paper on Ireland and European Political Cooperation presented
by Padraic MacKernan of the DFA at the Royal Irish Academy’s
National Committee for the Study of International Affairs
Fourth Annual Conference (20 November 1981, 32pp);
 reminder of the contents of the Commission communication,
‘Fresco II’ (1 March 1983, 2pp);
 ‘Convergence and Coordination: Some Basic Issues’, a note for
the attention of the Economic Policy Committee (25 November
1983, 19pp);
 ‘Sink – or swim – together’, an article by Anatole Kaletsky in the
Financial Times on the economic aspects of European
integration (5 December 1983, 2pp);
 ‘Convergence, Co-ordination and Harmonisation’, a note written
by I.C.R. Byatt on European integration (20 January 1984,
6pp);
 Minister’s address to Cork Speakers’ Club on Irish foreign
policy (15 April 1984, 14pp);
 Proposals to be adopted by the European Council in 1984,
including crossing intra-Community frontiers and free
movement of goods (13 June 1984, 8pp);
 briefing note for the Taoiseach’s meeting with President
Mitterrand regarding majority voting (18 June 1984, 2pp);
 briefing note on decision making procedures in the European
Council for the Council meeting at Fontainebleau, prepared by
the Economic Division of the DFA (21 June 1984, 4pp);
 steering note on political aspects of President Mitterrand’s 24
May statement to the European Council on European political
cooperation,
for
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European
Council
meeting
at
Fontainebleau, prepared by the Political Division of the DFA (21
June 1984, 4pp);
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26 June, prepared by the Economic Division of the DFA (June?
1984, 2pp);
background brief for the President for a meeting with the Irish
Presidency on institutional problems connected with European
enlargement (9 July 1984, 3pp);
Irish presidency of the European Community work programme
until the end of 1984 (20 July 1984, 4pp);
summary report of working dinner between Minister Collins
and Commissioner Narjes on 19 July 1984 (20 July 1984, 3pp);
briefing note for a meeting between the Taoiseach and
Chancellor Kohl on 30 August 1984 regarding the shortfall in
the Community Budget for 1984, prepared by the Department
of Finance, and some telexes from the Irish Embassy in Bonn
on the same topic (24-27 August 1984, 7pp);
synopsis of the Community’s budgetary problem prepared by
the Economic Division of the DFA in advance of the Taoiseach’s
visit to Bonn on 30 August 1984, and supporting
documentation (28 August 1984, 19pp);
briefing note on majority voting and a draft answer to the
question of Ireland’s position on this topic during its Presidency
(11 September 1984, 3pp);
original signed letter from John Clarke (Dooge’s secretary on
the Ad Hoc Committee) to the Deputy Secretary of the DFA
requesting some documents on behalf of Dooge (20 September
1984, 1pp);
working paper on the European Monetary System by Fernand
Herman (5 October 1984, 6pp);
Department of Finance document discussing the possibility of
minting a European coinage, which is one of the suggestions
the Ad Hoc Committee has been asked to look at (8 October
1984, 3pp);
steering note on the internal market (8 October 1984, 1p);
legal and institutional aspects of the Draft Treaty establishing
the European Union (9 October 1984, 4pp);
note from Mauro Ferri, Italian representative on the Ad Hoc
Committee, to his fellow Committee members on what their
aims ought to be (10 October 1984, 2pp);
working note by Fernan Herman on the Spaak II Committee (10
October 1984, 7pp);
paper written by Frans Andriessen on decision making in the
Community, primarily majority voting and modulation, and
some comments on same by an unknown party (10–18 October
1984, 9pp);
notes on promoting economic convergence, by an unknown
party, and a cutting from the Financial Times of an article by
Rupert Cornwell entitled ‘Howe unveils British blueprint for
relaunch of EEC’ (18 October 1984, 3pp);
speaking points on the internal market (19 October 1984, 3pp);
paper by Otto Møller entitled ‘The Impact of Advanced
Technology on the Community Structure’ (22 October 1984,
7pp);
paper on European Political Cooperation by Jurgen Ruhfus
([October 1984], 5pp);
initial reaction to the Ruhfus paper on political cooperation,
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marked confidential (23 October 1984, 5pp);
briefing for Dooge on Herman’s paper on the European
Monetary System, including a cover letter from M.J. Cunniffe of
the Department of Finance to John Clarke (5 November 1984,
8pp);
DFA notes on the paper by van Ekelens on institutional matters
(6 November 1984, 2pp);
monetary aspects of economic and monetary union (not dated,
5pp);
‘Creating a Genuine Common Market’ (not dated, 9pp);
working document on Europe of variable geometry by Fernand
Herman (not dated, 3pp).
1.2.4.3 Meetings
P270/67
September 1984–March 1985
10 items
Agendas and Chairman’s briefs
File of agendas and briefs compiled by Dooge from the meetings of
the Ad Hoc Committee on Institutional Affairs. This file was originally
stored in a manila folder, cover included. Meetings from the 28
September 1984 (the inaugural meeting) to 13 March 1985 are
included, with only the fifth meeting in November 1984 not
represented. However, there is a handwritten note by John Clarke
which states that the fifth meeting was concerned with the
preparation of the interim report, and there was no formal agenda.
P270/68
20 September–1 October 1984
6 items
First meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee
File of material relating to the inaugural meeting of the Ad Hoc
Committee on 28 September 1984 in Brussels.
Includes:
 aide-memoire by John Clarke on the proceedings of the meeting (1
October, 6pp);
 memorandum by John Clarke of a call received from Jean Pierre
Spitzer, assistant to Maurice Faure, in which the independent
nature of the Committee was discussed as well as logistical
considerations (20 September, 2pp);
 memorandum by John Clarke of a meeting he had with the
Belgian representative to the Committee, Fernand Herman, on the
independence of the Committee and Herman’s opinion that ‘Dr.
FitzGerald had been the cause of all the trouble’ in its
establishment (21 September, 3pp);
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memorandum by John Clarke of a meeting he had with Carlo
Troja, Chef de Cabinet to Commissioner Andriesson at Trojan’s
request, to ‘compare notes’ on preparations for the first meeting
(21 September, 3pp);
memorandum by John Clarke of a meeting he had with Pol
Kristofferson, Office of the Secretary General of the Council of
Europe, regarding issues around the first meeting of the
Committee (21 September, 3pp);
summary notes of the meeting on 28 September, written in
French by Paul Dabin, assistant to Fernand Herman (30
September, 32pp).
14 October 1984
2 items
Second meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee
Aide-memoire of the second meeting of the Committee on 10–11
October 1984 in Brussels, presumably written by John Clarke, which
details the items discussed (October 1984, 21pp). Also included is a
copy of summary notes of the meetings written in French by Paul
Dabin, assistant to Fernand Herman. Includes appendices and a
section on the design of the interim report of the Committee (14
October 1984, 32pp).
P270/70
October 1981–October 1984
12 items
Third meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee
File of material relating to the third meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee
on 24–25 October 1984 in Brussels.
Includes:
 documents on the appointment of a secretariat and the financing
of the Committee ([October 1984], 6pp);
 paper by Frans Andriessen on decision making in the European
Community, entitled ‘How Can We Eliminate the Bottlenecks?’,
and some notes on same by an unidentified author (10–18
October 1984, 9pp);
 background papers on the areas of majority voting and decision
making (18 June 1984);
 paper by Malcolm Rifkind on the internal market and some
speaking notes on the Irish position on same (19 October 1984,
15pp);
 background papers on the internal market (13 June–8 October
1984, 18pp);
 paper by Jurgen Ruhfus on European Political Cooperation and
an initial Irish reaction to same (23 October 1984, 10pp);
 background papers on European Political Cooperation (October
1981–September 1984, 23pp);
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paper by Maurice Faure on political discussion and decision
making in the Community, as well as a note from Faure to the
other members of the Committee making recommendations on
what form their work ought to take (10 October 1984, 10pp);
list of possible areas of discussion by the Committee ([September
1984, 2pp);
terms of reference of the Committee (25 September 1984, 5pp);
record of the meeting on the afternoon of 25 October detailing the
items discussed, by an unidentified author (25 October 1984,
11pp);
summary notes of the meeting on 24–25 October 1984, written in
French by Paul Dabin, assistant to Fernand Herman (October
1984, 42pp);
notes of the meeting on 24 October at which the papers prepared
by Andriessen and Rifkind were discussed. The author is not
noted, but there are some handwritten notes by Dooge on several
pages (October 1984, 10pp).
November 1983–November 1984
11 items
Fourth meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee
File of material relating to the fourth meeting of the Ad Hoc
Committee on 7–8 November 1984 in Brussels.
Includes:
 papers relating to the first item on the agenda, a preliminary draft
report of the Committee, along with commentary and political
discussion of same (6–9 November 1984, 29pp);
 papers relating to the second item, convergence: note from Greek
representative Ioannis Papantoniou on promoting economic
convergence, as well as general background papers on same
(November 1983–October 1984, 49pp);
 paper presented by Otto Møller entitled ‘The Impact of Advanced
Technology on the Community Structure; (22 October, 7pp);
 notes on the institutions of the Community by Rifkind and Van
Ekelens (24 October and 6 November, 4pp);
 papers on the European Monetary System by Fernand Herman
and an unidentified author ([October–November], 18pp);
 steering note on a visit by Leo Tindemans and Mr. BordeauxGrout on political cooperation and European integration
(September 1984, 4pp), a draft report on shared European
interests, risks and requirements in the security field by the
Political Division of the DFA (4 March 1984, 5pp), and a paper on
European political cooperation and Irish neutrality, also by the
Political Division (November 1983, 2pp);
 papers on the internal market (19 October, 3pp) and on creating a
genuine common market (not dated, 9pp);
 record of the meeting on 7 November (7 November 1984, 17pp);
 summary notes of the meeting on 8 November, in French (8
November 1984, 30pp);
 aide-memoire of observations made by participants of the meeting
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P270/72
of the Committee on the preliminary draft report to the December
European Council by Maurice Faure, written by John Clarke (9
November 1984, 7pp).
June 1984–January 1985
4 items
Seventh meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee
File of material relating to the seventh meeting of the Ad Hoc
Committee on 16–17 January 1985 in Brussels.
Includes:
 papers relating to the first item on the agenda, economic
convergence: a background note on the Irish approach to the
subject (10 January 1985, 1p), notes on economic convergence
with comments on Papantoniou’s paper (not dated, 2pp), and
general comments on the topic with the name ‘Murphy’ on the
first page, possibly the author (not dated, 5pp);
 papers relating to the second item on the agenda, technology:
background note on the ESPRIT Programme (European Strategic
Programme for Research and Development in Information
Technology) prepared by the Economic Division of the DFA (5
October 1984, 2pp), steering note on high technology from the
Irish point of view (11 January 1985, 2pp), paper on the
framework programme on research on development (not dated,
3pp), ‘Improving Ireland’s Return from EEC Science and
Technology Programmes’, prepared by the Department of
Industry, Trade, Commerce and Tourism (not dated, 2pp) and the
text of an address by Eddie Collins, Minister of State at that
Department, to the Commission for Energy, Research and
Technology of the European Parliament (29 November 1984,
11pp), and notes on the impact of advanced technology on the
Community Structure, author not noted (not dated, 3pp);
 background note on decision making in the Council (10 January
1985, 5pp);
 proposals concerning the institutional implications of the
accessions of Portugal and Spain to the Communities (14 June
1984, 36pp).
P270/73
July 1984–January 1985
3 items
Eighth meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee
File of material relating to the eighth meeting of the Ad Hoc
Committee on 30–31 January 1985 in Brussels.
Includes:
 papers relating to the first item on the agenda, the creation of a
European legal area: contribution by Jurgen Ruhfus to the
chapter on the promotion of the common values of civilization and
John Clarke’s notes on same (21–25 January 1985, 5pp), notes by
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Clarke on the intensification of European judicial cooperation (24
January 1985, 2pp), notes on a committee of experts on legal
cooperation in the civil area by J. Gawley of the Legal Division of
the DFA (10 December 1984, 2pp), views of the Justice
Department on judicial cooperation in civil matters (15 December
1984, 2pp), measures to combat organised crime and terrorism
(not dated, 2pp), notes by Clarke on Ireland’s position with regard
to several international conventions on terrorism, extradition and
the international validity of judgements (January 1985, 1p), paper
from the Anglo-Irish Division of the DFA entitled ‘Extradition:
Ireland and Britain’ (November 1984, 7pp), and also by the AngloIrish Division, a background note on the Council of Europe
Convention on the transfer of prisoners (5 September 1984, 1p);
papers relating to the second item on the agenda, social policy:
text proposed by Mauro Ferri for the final report of the Committee
on the European social area and some short notes by same by an
unidentified author ([January 1985], 3pp);
papers relating to the third item on the agenda, financing the
Community: background note on the financing of the Community
by Clarke (January 1985, 1p), note submitted by Carlo Ripa di
Meana on the same subject (24 January 1985, 5pp), European
Council note on budgetary issues (24 January 1985, 5pp), paper
on the future financing of the Community (not dated, 3pp), and
background and steering notes on the amended Commission
proposal on own resources from the General Affairs Council in
July 1984 (20 July 1984, 10pp).
November 1983–February 1985
7 items
Ninth meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee
File of material relating to the ninth meeting of the Ad Hoc
Committee on 13–14 February 1985 in Brussels.
Includes:
 extract from the Conclusions of the Presidency from Dublin in
December 1984, in which the European Council takes note of the
interim report of the Committee (December 1984, 1p);
 text by Mauro Ferri for inclusion in the section on culture in the
final report of the Committee, and notes by John Clarke on same
(8 February 1985, 3pp);
 notes by John Clarke on a meeting between Dooge and Marcelino
Oreja, Secretary General of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg (5
February 1985, 5pp);
 papers relating to the first item on the agenda, the powers of the
European Parliament: notes by Clarke on these powers (8
February 1985, 2pp), paper on the role of Parliament in the
appointment of the Commission (not dated, 8pp);
 papers relating to the second item on the agenda, defence and
security: notes by Clarke on this topic (8 February 1985, 1p), and
a paper on European political cooperation and Irish neutrality,
prepared by the Political Division of the DFA (November 1983,
2pp);
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P270/75
note on convening an inter-Governmental Conference with the
task of negotiating the Treaty on European Union, an extract from
an address by Giulio Andreotti to the European Parliament (16
January 1985, 1p);
papers on the fourth item on the agenda, the European Monetary
System: notes on same by Clarke (8 February 1985, 1p),
confidential briefing for Dooge on Fernand Herman’s paper on
EMS (not dated, 7pp), and a paper on the monetary aspects of the
economic and monetary union of Europe (not dated, 5pp).
September 1984–1985
26 items
Secretariat and arrangements for meetings of the Ad Hoc
Committee
File of material relating to the creation of a secretariat for the
Committee and the arrangements by which meetings were organised.
Includes:
 handwritten calendar for September 1984 showing the days on
which the European Parliament was being held as well as other
committees and groups ([September] 1984, 4pp);
 list of the Ad Hoc Committee members and a circular from John
Clarke to all of them, notifying them of the first meeting on 28
September in Brussels ([September] 1984, 2pp);
 circular for the Irish Ambassadors to the European Community
member states from the Deputy Secretary in the DFA, informing
them that the Committee will soon start meeting and that John
Clarke of the Department has been seconded as Special Assistant
to Dooge for the duration ([September] 1984, 1p);
 telex from the DFA to the Irish Ambassador to Belgium,
requesting that he approach the Belgian authorities and see if
they are willing to provide the Committee with a suitable venue for
its first meeting ([September] 1984, 1p);
 original signed letter from John Clarke to Deputy Secretary of the
DFA requesting a secretary or clerical assistant to aid him in his
role. A handwritten note from the Deputy Secretary confirms that
Clarke has been provided with assistance (14 September–5
October 1984, 1p);
 telex transmitted from the DFA to the Irish Embassy in Brussels
also requesting that a location be found for the first meeting of the
Committee (14 September, 1p);
 confirmation that Otto Møller is agreeable to the date of the first
meeting (18 September 1984, 1p);
 note from the French Ambassador to Ireland to the DFA on the
location of the first meeting and its secretariat, with a handwritten
annotation from the Deputy Secretary (20 September, 1p);
 arrangements with the offices of Pfimlin and Spinelli for the
second meeting and brief discussion of the Committee’s
relationship with the press (21 September, 1p);
 arrangements for Dooge and Clarke’s visit to Brussels for the first
meeting (25 September, 3pp);
 text for a telex to be sent to Pol Kristoffersson of the Council
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Secretariat from John Clarke with the names of the members of
the Committee and their assistants for the arrangement of the
table for the meeting (25 September 1984, 6pp);
telex from Clarke to Irish Ambassadors to the ten member states,
requesting that they obtain the names of the person
accompanying the Committee member in their area to the meeting
(20 September 1984, 2pp);
request from the Irish Ambassador to Greece that Clarke keep Mr
Stephanou informed of details of forthcoming Committee meetings
(27 September 1984, 1p);
original signed letter from Martin Dennany of the Department of
the Taoiseach to Clarke informing him of the availability of the
State Apartments in Dublin Castle (27 September 1984, 2pp);
telex from Niels Ersboell to Dooge regarding the appointment of
Yvon Quintin to the Committee’s secretariat (17 October 1984,
1p);
telex from Frans Andriessen to Dooge proposing the appointment
of Alain van Solinge to the secretariat (18 October 1984, 1p);
telex from Clarke to E.J. P. Roberts of the Dutch Foreign Ministry
in The Hague detailing the draft agenda for the meeting scheduled
for 24–25 October 1984 ([October] 1984, 1p);
draft agenda for the meeting of 78 November 1984, sent to all
members except the Greek representative Papantoniou (2
November 1984, 2pp);
telex from Clarke to Donal Kelly in Leinster House discussing
travel arrangements (27 November, 17 December 1984, 6pp);
telex from Clarke to Quintin and van Solinge regarding the work
programme decided at the Committee meeting on Thursday 13
December, outlined in notes by Katherine Meenan (8 January
1985, 5pp);
telex from Clarke to Donal Kelly regarding travel arrangements (10
January 1985, 3pp);
telex from Meenan to all Committee assistants confirming the
meeting planned for 16 January 1985, 1p);
telex from Meenan to all members of the Committee calling a
meeting of the assistants to discuss the paper on high technology
(24 January 1985, 1p);
telex from Meenan to all members of the Committee with a draft
agenda for the meeting planned for 13–14 February 1984 (1p);
telex from Meenan to all members of the Committee outlining the
suggested future work programme (25 February 1984, 1p);
suggested programme for the eleventh meeting of the Committee
on 13–15 March 1984, 1p).
1984–85
226pp
Jim Dooge’s notes of meetings of the Ad Hoc Committee
Handwritten notes taken by Dooge at meetings and arranged into a
file during an initial listing project (see Scope and Content notes in
front of catalogue for more details). As the notes are generally not
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dated, they have been left in Dooge’s original order.
P270/77
September 1984–March 1985
18 items
John Clarke’s notes of meetings of the Ad Hoc Committee
Handwritten notes taken by Clarke at meetings and arranged into a
file during an initial listing project (see Scope and Content notes in
front of catalogue for more details). Unlike Dooge’s notes, Clarke’s are
easily discernible as discrete sets of notes taken at different
meetings, and some sections are dated.
P270/78
December 1984–February 1985
114pp
Notes of meetings of the Ad Hoc Committee
Handwritten notes taken, possibly by Ad Hoc Committee secretary
Katherine Meenan, at meetings and arranged into a file during an
initial listing project (see Scope and Content notes in front of
catalogue for more details). Only some pages are dated.
P270/79
October 1984–April 1985
12 items
Meeting between Dooge and Marcelino Oreja
Correspondence and documents relating to a meeting between Dooge
and the President of the Council of Europe, which eventually took
place in Strasbourg in February 1985, as well as cover letters from
Dooge to Oreja sent with copies of the interim and final reports of the
Committee.
P270/80
October 1983–March 1985
10 items
Meeting with the Action Committee for European Union
Correspondence relating to a meeting between Dooge and the
members of the Action Committee, and background documents
provided to Dooge in preparation for same.
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P270/81
October 1984
2 items
Numbering of Committee documents
Note by Katherine Meenan on the method of document numeration to
be used for Committee papers, and a detailed outline of the
numbering system.
P270/82
February–March 1985
3 items
Lists of documents
The third, fourth and fifth lists of Committee documents.
P270/83
Not dated
2pp
Working Document Number 3
‘Decisions taken by the Council’ by Dondelinger.
P270/84
1985
2pp
Working Document Number 4
‘Decisions taken by the Council’ by Rifkind.
P270/85
21 January 1985
5pp
Working Document Number 5
‘European Social Area’ by Ruhfus.
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1985
2pp
Working Document Number 6
‘Amendment to Mr Ferri’s Text’ by Ripa Di Mena.
P270/87
1985
2pp
Working Document Number 7
‘Financing’ by Ripa di Mena.
P270/88
5 October 1984
2 items
Documents A1 and A1 Revision1
‘Working Paper on the European Monetary System’ and ‘Revised
Working Document on the European Monetary System’ by Fernand
Herman.
P270/89
9 October 1984
13pp
Document A2
‘General Political Discussion’ by Herman.
P270/90
4 October 1984
4pp
Document A3
‘Working Document on Europe of Variable Geometry’ by Herman.
P270/91
[October] 1984
18pp
Document A4
‘Summarising Documents A2 and A3’ by Herman.
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[October] 1984
8pp
Document A5
‘Political Report’ by Faure.
P270/93
[October]–November 1984
2 items
Documents A6 and A6 Amendment 8
‘Preliminary Draft Report to be put before the European Council in
Dublin’ by Faure ([October], 12pp) and ‘Amendments to the Faure
Report’ by Møller (13 November, 8pp).
P270/94
10 October 1984
8pp
Document A7
‘How Can We Eliminate the Bottlenecks?’ by Andriessen.
P270/95
10 October 1984
3pp
Document A8
Introductory remarks by Ferri.
P270/96
[October] 1984
2 items
Document A9 and Document A9 Revision 1
‘Note on the Internal Market’ and ‘Revised Note on the Internal
market’ by Rifkind.
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19 October 1984
5pp
Document A10
‘Note on Institutional Matters’ by van Eekelen.
P270/98
October 1984
2 items
Documents A11 and A11 Observation
‘Note on European Political Cooperation’ by Ruhfus, and ‘Reflections
on Mr Ruhfus’s Note on European Political Cooperation’ by Herman.
P270/99
22 October 1984
8pp
Document A12
‘The Impact of Advanced Technology on the Community Structure’ by
Møller.
P270/100
22 October 1984
7pp
Document A13
‘Promoting Economic Convergence’ by Papantoniou.
P270/101
[October] 1984
2pp
Document A14
‘Note sur les Institutions’ by Rifkind. In French.
P270/102
October 1984
2 items
Documents A15 and A15 Revision 1
‘Economic Recovery’ and its revision, by Herman.
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31 October 1984
5pp
Document A16
‘The Price of Incomplete Integration’ by Andriessen.
P270/104
6 November 1984
10pp
Document A17
‘European Integration: Stock-taking and Prospects’ by Møller.
P270/105
10 December 1984
10pp
Document A18
‘The Flexibility of Existing Community Law – Practical Examples’ by
Andriessen.
P270/106
7 January 1985
5pp
Document A19
‘Majority Voting in the Council and the Invoking of Vital National
Interest’ by Herman.
P270/107
[January] 1985
2pp
Document A20
‘Revised Text on Economic Convergence’ by Papantoniou.
P270/108
January 1985
2 items
Documents A21 and A21 Observation
‘Elements of a Community Cooperation with regard to Advanced
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Technology’ by Møller, and observations on same by Ruhfus.
P270/109
[January] 1985
2pp
Document A22
‘Elements of a Community Cooperation with regard to Advanced
Technology’ by van Eekelen.
P270/110
[January] 1985
9pp
Document A23
‘Decision-taking in the Community’ by Rifkind.
P270/111
21 January 1985
4pp
Document A24
‘Contribution to the Chapter on the Promotion of the Common Values
of Civilization’ by Ruhfus.
P270/112
[January] 1985
3pp
Document A25
‘European Social Area’ by Ferri.
P270/113
24 January 1985
6pp
Document A26
‘Financing of the Community’ by Ripa di Meana. This document is
dated incorrectly, with 1984 being used instead of the correct year,
1985.
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24 January 1985
6pp
Document A27
‘Decision making in the Council: the main recommendations of
Fresco II’ by Ripa di Meana.
P270/115
24 January 1985
2pp
Document A28
‘Differentiation: Additional Comments’ by Ripa di Mena.
P270/116
25 January 1985
4pp
Document A29
‘Strengthening the Decision-making Process’ by Dondelinger.
P270/117
[January] 1985
6pp
Document A30
‘Community and European Union Finances’ by Dondelinger.
P270/118
[January] 1985
2pp
Document A31
‘Revised Proposal for a Text on the Court of Justice’ by Ruhfus.
P270/119
[January] 1985
4pp
Document A32
‘Proposal for a Revised Text on Legal Policies’ by Ruhfus.
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[January] 1985
3pp
Document A33
‘Decision-taking in the Council’ by Møller.
P270/121
8 February 1985
4pp
Document A34
‘Note on the Powers of the European Parliament’ by Ferri.
P270/122
[February] 1985
2 items
Documents A35 and A35 Revision 1
‘Promotion of the European Cultural Identity’ by Dooge and Ferri,
and its revised version.
P270/123
11 February 1985
2 items
Documents A36 and A36 Revision 1
‘Amendments to the Chapter “The Search for an External Identity”’
by Papantoniou and its revised version.
P270/124
[February] 1985
3pp
Document A37
‘Revised Proposal for a Text on the Court of Justice’ by Rifkind.
P270/125
[February] 1985
2pp
Document A38
‘Amendment to the Chapter on the Court of Justice’ by Faure.
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[February] 1985
2pp
Document A39
‘Amendment to the Text on Legal Policy’ by Faure.
P270/127
[February] 1985
2pp
Document A40
‘Amendment to the Chapter on the European Social Area’ by Faure.
P270/128
[February] 1985
2pp
Document A41
‘Amendment to the Chapter on the Court of Justice’ by Papantoniou.
P270/129
[February] 1985
3pp
Document A42
‘European Community’s Own Resources and the Budget Procedure’
by Møller.
P270/130
[February] 1985
4 items
Documents A43, A43 Amendment 1, A43 Revision 1, and A43
Revision 2
‘Proposal for a Revised Version of Chapter II C(b) “Security and
Defense”’ by Faure along with his two revisions of the paper, and an
amendment contribution from Ruhfus.
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13 February 1985
2pp
Document A44
‘Note on the Court of Justice’ by Ferri.
P270/132
[February] 1985
2pp
Document A45
‘Note Concerning the Legislative Powers of the European Parliament’
by Ruhfus.
P270/133
[February] 1985
3 items
Documents A46, A46 Revision 1 and A46 Revision 2
‘Note on the Powers of the European Parliament as regards Revenue’
by Faure, and his two revisions of same.
P270/134
[February] 1985
3pp
Document A47
‘General Voting Principles’ by Rifkind.
P270/135
13 February 1985
2pp
Document A48
‘The Strengthening of the European Monetary System’ by Ruhfus.
P270/136
14 February 1985
3pp
Document A49
‘Modalities on Invoking a Vital National Interest in Decision-making
in the Council’ by van Eekelen.
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[February] 1985
2pp
Document A50
‘European Social Area’ by Ferri.
P270/138
[February] 1985
4 items
Documents A51, A51 Revision 1, A51 Revision 1 Amendment 1
and A51 Revision 2
‘Amendments to Chapter C “European Parliament”’ by Ferri and
Ruhfus which is in French, their first revision which is in English, an
amendment to Revision 1 by Rifkind in English, and the second
revision which is in French (‘Amendements du chapitre C “Parlement
européen”’).
P270/139
[February] 1985
2 items
Documents A52 and A52 Amendment 1
‘Amendments to the Section “Through the Realization of the EMS”’ by
Herman and an amendment to that point.
P270/140
[February] 1985
2pp
Document A53
‘Note on Chapter II, C “The Search for an External Identity”’ by
Dooge.
P270/141
[February] 1985
2pp
Document A54
‘Amendment to the Chapter “European Parliament”’ by Rifkind.
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[February] 1985
2pp
Document A55
‘Amendment to the Chapter “European Parliament”’ by Rifkind.
P270/143
[February] 1985
3pp
Document A56
‘Proposed Amendments to the Interim Report’ by Rifkind.
P270/144
25 February 1985
2pp
Document A57
‘National States Aid’ by Møller.
P270/145
[February] 1985
2 items
Document A58 and notes
‘Financing’ by Ruhfus (3pp) and handwritten notes by Dooge on same
(1p).
P270/146
[February] 1985
2pp
Document A59
‘Decision-taking’ by Rifkind.
P270/147
[February] 1985
2 items
Documents A60 and A60 Revision 1
‘Decision-making in the Council’ and its amendment by Ruhfus.
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[February] 1985
2pp
Document A61
‘Prise de décision’ by Faure. In French.
P270/149
7 March 1985
4pp
Document A64
‘Amendments to the Interim Report’ by Dooge.
P270/150
[March] 1985
8pp
Document A65
‘Amendements au rapport interimaire’ by Dooge. In French.
P270/151
[March] 1985
2pp
Document A70
‘Amendment to Interim Report’ by Ruhfus.
P270/152
[March] 1985
2pp
Document A71
‘Amendment to the Interim Report’ by Dondelinger.
P270/153
[March] 1985
5 items
Documents A72, A72 Revision 1, A72 Revision 1 Amendment 1,
A72 Revision 2, and A72 Revision 1 Amendment 1
‘Amendment to the Preface of the Interim Report’ by Dooge and Faure
and their revisions, along with amendments by Ruhfus.
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[March] 1985
2 items
Documents A73 and A73 Revision 1
‘Amendments to Chapter IV’ by van Eekelen and its revision. A73
Revision 1 is in French.
P270/155
[March] 1985
2pp
Document A74
‘Optional Text for Chapter IV of the Interim Report’ by Møller,
Papantoniou and Rifkind.
P270/156
1 March 1983
14pp
Document C3
‘Institutional Implications of Enlargement’, a communication from
the European Commission.
P270/157
16 November 1984
139pp
Document C5
‘Preliminary Draft Report to be put before the European Council in
Dublin’ by Faure, including its proposed amendments.
P270/158
20 November 1984
2 items
Document C6 and Document C6 Amendment 1
‘Preliminary Draft Report to be put before the European Council in
Dublin’ by Faure and an amended copy with its full list of
amendments.
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23 November 1984
24pp
Document C7
‘Projet de rapport intérimaire á deposer devant le Conseil Européen
de Dublin’. In French, author not noted.
P270/160
12 December 1984
3pp
Document C8
Resolution on the outcome of the European Council in Dublin in
response to the interim report by the Ad Hoc Committee on
Institutional Affairs, adopted by the European Parliament at its
session in Dublin.
P270/161
20 December 1984
3pp
Documents C9 and C10
Letters to Dr Mario Soares, Prime Minister of Portugal, and Felipe
Gonzalez, President of the Spanish government, from Dooge covering
copies of the Committee’s interim report, which are not included.
P270/162
[December 1984]
3pp
Document C11
Third list of Committee documents.
P270/163
[December 1984]
3 items
Documents C12, C12 Revision 1 and C12 Revision 2
‘The Creation of a Technological Community’ and two revisions of
same.
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[December 1984]
6pp
Document C13
Memorandum from the Council of Europe on the Committee’s interim
report.
P270/165
[December 1984]
2 items
Documents C15 and C15 Revision 2
Revised version of the chapter on the Court of Justice, and its two
revisions.
P270/166
[December 1984]
2 items
Documents C16 and C16 Revision 1
Revised document on legal principles, and its revision, which is in
French.
P270/167
[December 1984]
2 items
Documents C17 Revision 1 and C17 Revision 2
Revised notes on new technologies.
P270/168
[December 1984]
2pp
Document C18
Note on the European Social Area.
P270/169
[December 1984]
2pp
Document C19
‘Promotion of the European Cultural Identity’.
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[December 1984]
2pp
Document C20
‘European Social Area’.
P270/171
[March 1985]
5 items
Documents C21, C21 Amendment 1, C21 Amendment
Addendum 1, C21 Amendment 2, and C21 Amendment 3
Draft interim report to the European Council, and revisions.
P270/172
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[March 1985]
95pp
Document C23
Draft interim report to the European Council, with amendments
noted.
P270/173
[March 1985]
100pp
Document C25
Interim Report to the European Council.
P270/174
[March 1985]
3 items
Documents C26, C26 Amendment 2 and C26 Amendment 3
Revised text of the interim report to the European Council, and two
revisions of same.
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[March 1985]
8pp
Document C27
Document replacing pages 65 to 96 of Document C26.
P270/176
March 1985
36pp
Document C29
Draft Report to the European Council. Includes a full list of
Committee members.
P270/177
March 1985
37pp
Document C30
Draft Report to the European Council, including the text of footnotes
to be given to the Committee secretariat by 19 March.
P270/178
February–March 1985
5 items
Possible Inter-Governmental Conference
File of material relating to the possibility of the convening of an intergovernmental conference to draft a European Union Treaty in
response to the suggestions made in the forthcoming report of the Ad
Hoc Committee.
Includes:
 Irish government document written by ‘J.L.’ discussing the Irish
position with regard to any conference that may take place, and
recommending that all Irish Members of the European Parliament
be briefed on Irish objectives for the Dooge report (22 February,
5pp);
 original, signed letter from [G.P.] to Mr. Fogarty, discussing the
location and requirements for the potential conference (21
February, 2pp);
 memorandum by John Clarke discussing the format of an intergovernmental conference (8 February, 1p);
 memorandum from an unnamed member of the Irish diplomatic
mission in Germany, discussing the German outlook on the Ad
Hoc Committee’s work ([February], 2pp);
 telex from J. Lynch in the Irish Embassy in Brussels to F.
Sheridan in the DFA, discussing ‘hostile and critical remarks
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P270/179
about Chairman Dooge and the recent amendment on vital
national interest’ made by Herman, the Belgian representative on
the Committee (21 March, 1p).
[March] 1985
2 items
Lists of Ad Hoc Committee files
Typed list of the ‘DC’ range of files, and a handwritten list detailing
the contents of each.
P270/180
August 1984–April 1985
21 items
File DC3: Relationship with the European Parliament
File containing material relating to the Ad Hoc Committee’s
relationship with the European parliament.
Includes:
 notice to members of the Committee on the response of the
national parliaments in favour of the draft treaty establishing the
European Union in 1984, including a cover note from Dermot
Scott to Dooge (3 August 1984, 13pp);
 letter from Pierre Pfimlin, President of the European parliament,
to Garret FitzGerald requesting periodic meetings with the Ad Hoc
Committee (28 August 1984,1p);
 letter from Francois Ceyrac, Chairman of the Economic and Social
Committee, to Garret FitzGerald discussing the possibility of
‘establishing a pragmatic form of cooperation with the Dooge
Committee’ (30 August 1984, 1p);
 telex from Deputy Secretary in the Irish Embassy in Brussels to
John Clarke, asking if Dooge would be available to meet with
Pierre Pfimlin before the first meeting of the Committee (18
September, 1p);
 telex from John Clarke to the Irish Embassy in Ottawa, Canada,
to be passed to Dooge, regarding meetings with Spinelli and
Pfimlin (18 September 1984, 2pp);
 report from Spinelli delivered to the European Parliament on the
Ad Hoc (Dooge Committee), in French. Includes an original signed
cover letter from Spinelli to Dooge, also in French (10 October
1984, 6pp);
 report on a meeting between Dooge and Pfimlin (31 October 1984,
3pp);
 original signed letter from Pfimlin to Dooge, enclosing a petition
presented to the European Parliament proposing that the
European Community ought to have an anthem (20 October
1984, 2pp);
 report on a meeting between FitzGerald and Pfimlin on 31 October
1984, written by Walter Kirwan, Assistant Secretary in the
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Department of the Taoiseach. Includes an original signed cover
letter from Kirwan to Clarke (2–5 November 1984, 8pp);
letter from FitzGerald to Pfimlin discussing the Presidency
conclusions regarding the interim report of the Committee (10
December 1984, 4pp);
European Council resolution following the interim report of the Ad
Hoc Committee. In French (13 December 1984, 3pp);
notice to members of the Committee which draws a parallel
between the interim report and the Draft Treaty establishing
European Union (13 December 1984, 3pp);
letters from Francois Mitterrand, Gaston Thorn, Helmut Kohl, Leo
Tindemans, and Margaret Thatcher to Pierre Pfimlin, in which
each correspondent thanks Pfimlin for his letter to them before
the European Council meeting in Dublin and briefly discusses the
issues raised (19–24 December 1984, 8pp);
memorandum by John Clarke for Dooge’s attention, discussing
the possibility of meeting with Pfimlin again in January 1985
(December 1984, 2pp);
original signed letter from British MEP Basil de Ferranti to Dooge
discussing the Kangaroo Group in the European Parliament,
which campaigns for a European Community home market (5
February 1985, 3pp);
report on the visit of the European Parliament’s Committee on
Institutional Affairs (consisting of Spinelli, Richie Ryan, AnneMarie Lizin and Lambert Croux) to Dublin to discuss the draft
treaty on European union with Charles Haughey, Dick Spring and
Garret FitzGerald, amongst other activities (6 February, 5pp);
report of the meeting between the Taoiseach and the Committee
on Institutional Affairs on 6 February 1984, written by S. Ó
hÉigeartaigh of the Department of the Taoiseach (7 February
1984, 8pp);
preliminary draft report by Lambert Croux on the European
Parliament’s position on the deliberations of the European
Council on the European union (13 February 1984, 9pp);
resolution on the draft Treaty establishing the European Union
adopted by the European parliament at its session on 14
February 1984 (17 February 1984, 3pp);
memorandum by John Clarke on a visit he and Dooge took to
Strasbourg from 16–17 April 1985 and meetings which took place
during that visit (24 April 1985, 6pp);
‘The Draft Treaty Establishing European Union’, a report by
Dietmar Nickel and Richard Corbett, members of the secretariat of
the European Parliament’s Committee on Institutional Affairs
([April] 1985, 21pp).
August–September 1984
3 items
File DC6: Membership
File containing lists of the members of the Committee and their
assistants, contact details, and curricula vitae for several members of
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September 1984–April 1985
19pp
File DC7: Financial
File of expense reports, claim forms and other documentation
relating to the travel expenses of Dooge and Clark throughout the
Committee’s tenure.
P270/183
July–November 1984
20pp
File DC8: Representation to the Committee
File of correspondence containing representations to the Ad Hoc
Committee (via Dooge) on behalf of groups, individuals and
organisations outside the Communities. Correspondence consists of
requests for meetings with Dooge and/or the Committee or
invitations to attend meetings. Correspondents include Franz-Joseph
Rettig (economist), Frank J. Convery (Heritage Trust Professor of
Environmental Studies at University College Dublin), Susana Rosen
(Secretary General of JEF, Young European Federalists), Reginald
Hibbert (the Ditchley Foundation), Louis Leprince-Ringuet
(l’Académie Francaise) and Max Kohnstamm, the Socialist Group of
the European Parliament. Dooge’s reply to Hibbert is included. Also
included is a telex from John Clarke to the Portuguese Embassy in
Dublin confirming that Dooge would be happy to brief Ambassador
Jose Gregorio Faria and his Spanish counterpart with regard to the
Ad Hoc Committee.
P270/184
December 1984
2 items
File DC23: Legal/Constitutional Implications of the Work of the
Ad Hoc Committee
Letter from Dooge to John Rogers, Attorney-General, requesting
observations
on
the
Constitutional
implications
of
the
recommendations contained in the Ad Hoc Committee’s interim
report (December, 4pp), and ‘The Flexibility of Existing Community
Law – Practical Examples’ by Frans Andriessen (10 December, 9pp).
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October 1984–March 1985
10 items
File DC24: Relations between the Ad Hoc Committee and
Applicant Countries
File of material relating to Spain and Portugal and their relationship
with the Committee.
Includes:
 note on the Taoiseach’s willingness to involve the Spanish and
Portuguese government in the Committee’s work from the outset
(21 September 1984, 2pp);
 DFA memorandum on the progress of the negotiations for the
entry of Spain and Portugal into the European Communities (31
October 1984, 11pp);
 letters from Dooge to Mario Soares, Prime Minister of Portugal,
and Felipe Gonzalez, President of the Spanish government, which
enclosed copies of the interim report of the Committee (20
December 1984, 2pp);
 letters from Dooge to Luis Jordana de Pozas Fuentes, Spanish
ambassador to Ireland, and Jose Gregorio Faria, Portuguese
ambassador to Ireland, requesting that the aforementioned letters
to their heads of government be directed to them by the
appropriate channels (December 1984, 4pp);
 note discussing the association of the applicant countries with the
work of the Committee, written by [TE] (11 January 1985, 1p);
 letters from Dooge to Soares and Gonzalez, inviting them to each
send a delegation to meet the Committee in advance of the final
report (28 February 1985, 2pp);
 letter from Joao Ramos-Pinto, charge d’affaires at the Portuguese
Embassy in Dublin, to John Clarke accepting Dooge’s invitation
on behalf of the Portuguese authorities (8 March 1985, 1p);
 correspondence between John Clarke and the Irish diplomatic
missions in Portugal and Spain regarding the proposed
delegations to the next Committee meeting (8–11 March 1985,
9pp);
 letter from Ramos-Pinto to Clarke listing the names of the
Portuguese delegation who will attend the meeting, to be held at
Egmont Palace in Brussels (14 March 1985, 2pp);
 Dooge’s handwritten notes on discussions held with the
delegations ([March] 1985, 3pp).
P270/186
July 1984–April 1985
9 items
File DC26: Relations with Community institutions other than
the European Parliament
File of material relating to the Committee’s dealings with other
European institutions.
Includes:
 notes of a meeting between the Irish MFA and French Foreign
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Minister Claude Cheysson in Cork on 7 July 1984 (9 July 1984,
3pp);
memorandum for the Deputy Secretary of the DFA from John
Clarke, regarding potential meetings with Spinelli and Pfimlin (20
September 1984, 1p);
press note on a meeting between Jacques Delors and Quentin Peel
and Paul Cheesewright of the Financial Times (27 November 1984,
2pp);
note on the possibility of a meeting with the Chairman of the
Economic and Social Committee (10 January 1985, 1p);
note on the possibility of a meeting with the Chairman of the
Committee of the Governors of Central Banks (10 January 1985,
2pp);
note on a possible meeting with the Chairman of the Monetary
Committee ([10 January] 1985, 1p);
letter from Dooge to Delors sent on the completion of the Ad Hoc
Committee’s work (4 April 1985, 1p);
letter from Dooge to Nils Ersbøll, sent on the completion of the Ad
Hoc Committee’s work (4 April 1985, 1p);
point seven of the conclusions of the Presidency of the European
Council of Fontainebleau on the work of the Ad Hoc Committee
(not dated, 2pp).
July–December 1984
7 items
File DC29: Papers relating to the European People’s Party
File of material relating to the Committee’s dealings with other
European institutions.
Includes:
 original, signed letter from Thomas Jansen, Secretary General of
the Party, to Dooge congratulating him on his appointment to
chair of the Committee (26 July, 1p);
 original, signed letter from Jansen to Dooge inviting him to attend
a meeting of the Working Group, formed by the Political Bureau of
the Party (19 October, 1p);
 telex from ‘Bob’ to Katherine Meenan discussing meetings to be
attended by Dooge and members of the Party (6 November, 1p);
 telex from an unnamed correspondent to ‘Dear Colleague’,
discussing the European Council meeting to be held in Dublin on
3–4 December 1984 ([November] 1984, 2pp);
 handwritten note from Rudolf Wevekind to Dooge briefly
discussing the issue of ‘vital national interest’ ([1984], 1p);
 two sets of Dooge’s handwritten notes, possibly from meetings
with Party members ([December 1984], 2 items).
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August 1984–March 1985
13 items
File DC41: Government Memorabilia
File of material relating to the Committee’s dealings with other
European institutions.
Includes:
 telex from D. Kelly at the Irish Embassy in Brussels to R. Gray in
the DFA, giving contact details for Fernand Herman (20 August
1984, 1p);
 telex from Gray at the DFA to J. Lawton in the Irish Embassy in
Bonn regarding the inaugural meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee
(27 August 1984, 4pp);
 original, signed letter from Otto Møller to Dooge regarding the first
meeting of the Committee (19 September 1984, 1p);
 telex from T. Bolster in the Irish Embassy in Rome to John Clarke
at Leinster House regarding the delegation from Italy to the
Committee (20 September 1984, 1p);
 telex from the Irish Embassy in The Hague to Clarke regarding the
Dutch delegation to the Committee (20 September 1984, 1p);
 telex from the Irish Embassy in Paris to Clarke regarding the
French delegation to the Committee (21 September 1984, 1p);
 telex from the Irish Embassy in Copenhagen to Clarke regarding
the Danish delegation to the Committee (21 September 1984, 1p);
 telex from Foley at the Irish Embassy in Luxembourg to Clarke
regarding the delegation from Luxembourg (21 September 1984,
1p);
 telex from Lawton at the Irish Embassy in Bonn to Clarke
regarding the German delegation to the Committee (21 September
1984, 1p);
 telex from R. Townsend at the Irish Embassy in London to Clarke
regarding the British delegation to the Committee (21 September
1984, 1p);
 telex from T. Bolster at the Irish Embassy in Rome to Clarke
regarding the Italian delegation to the Committee (25 September
1984, 1p);
 telex from J. O’Connell at the Irish Embassy in Athens to Clarke
regarding the Greek delegation to the Committee (22 October
1984, 1p);
 letter from Garret FitzGerald, Taoiseach, to Peter Barry, Minister
for Foreign Affairs, requesting that the DFA initiate ‘preparatory
inter-Departmental work’ to create a statement ‘setting out our
views… on the subject of European union in all its aspects’ (11
March 1985, 3pp).
P270/189
October 1984
3 items
Secretariat and financing arrangements
Documents relating to the establishment of the
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secretariat and discussions around the financing of the Committee’s
meetings.
P270/190
[December 1984]
3pp
Work programme for the Ad Hoc Committee
A work programme for the Committee, decided at the meeting on
Thursday 13 December 1984.
P270/191
September 1984–March 1985
9 items
Communications with the Department of the Taoiseach
File of material which was originally stored in a manila folder with
‘Department of Taoiseach’ written on the cover in ink.
Includes:
 documents relating to a letter sent to Garret FitzGerald by Louis
Leprince-Ringuet of the European Movement protesting the
appointment of Dooge as Committee chair, and the subsequent
reply from the Department of the Taoiseach (September–October
1984, 8pp);
 memorandum by William Kirwan, Assistant Secretary in the
Department, regarding the projected expenses associated with the
Committee (9 October 1984, 4pp);
 memorandum by Kirwan discussing a report from John Clarke on
the second meeting of the Committee, which is not included (17
October 1984, 4pp);
 letter from FitzGerald to Dooge thanking him for the interim
report of the Committee (18 December 1984, 3pp);
 letter from Katherine Meenan to Dooge discussing the work
programme of the Committee (January 1985, 2pp);
 list of participants at a meeting to be held in the Department
relating to the Committee (February 1985, 1p);
 letter from J. Lynch of the Irish Embassy in Paris to Proinsias
Gallagher of the Economic Division of the DFA, enclosing a copy
of a note on the possibility of an inter-governmental conference
following the Dooge Report (27 February 1985, 6pp);
 briefing note on majority voting, written by the Economic Division
of the DFA (27 March 1985, 7pp);
 ‘The Dooge Committee: Points Raised in Craxi Letter’, written by
the Economic Division of the DFA (27 March 1985, 2pp).
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1984–1985
2pp
Schedules for meetings of the Ad Hoc Committee
Lists containing the dates and times for meeting of the Committee in
1984 and in 1985.
P270/193
November 1984–February 1985
14 items
Irish-Italian paper on culture
File of material relating to a paper written jointly by Dooge and the
Italian representative, Ferri, for presentation to the Committee, which
includes correspondence and other documents relating to the joint
process.
P270/194
[November] 1984–April 1985
16 items
General Correspondence
File of correspondence to and from Dooge which relates to the work
of the Ad Hoc Committee.
Includes:
 telex from Malcolm Rifkind to Dooge discussing political
cooperation and the task of the Committee ([November] 1984, 1p);
 letter from Garret FitzGerald to Dooge, thanking him for the
interim report (18 December 1984, 2pp);
 letter from John Clarke to Sean Ó hÉigheartaigh at the
Department of the Taoiseach which covers a short note on the
work of the Committee since December (4 February 1984, 2pp);
 letters sent by Dooge to individuals, inviting them to a meeting in
February 1985 to give their views on Community affairs, including
Dr Miriam Hederman-O’Brien, Dr Pierce Ryan, Dr Alan Matthews,
C.P. Fogarty and Padraig MacKernan of the DFA, and Dermot
Scott of the Office of the European Parliament (4 December 1984,
6pp);
 list of people to be contacted and invited to give their views on
Community affairs (5 February 1985, 1p);
 letter from Paul D. Dempsey, Irish Embassy in London, to Pat
McCabe at the DFA which covers a summary of a speech prepared
for Dumas, French Minister for European Affairs (13 February
1985, 6pp);
 letters from John Clarke to Frank Sheridan and Maurice Biggar of
the DFA and Arthur Plunkett at the Office of the Attorney General
inviting their comments on some recent working documents of the
Committee (19 February 1985, 3pp);
 letters from John Clarke to Eugene Hutchinson and Philomena
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Murray of the DFA and Sean Alward of the Department of Trade,
Commerce and Tourism inviting their comments on some recent
working documents of the Committee (20 February 1985, 3pp);
letter from Clarke to C.P. Fogarty of the DFA, briefing him on the
progress of meetings to date (February 1985, 5pp);
letter from Clarke to ‘George’, covering a note on Working
Document C23 (4 March 1985, 4pp);
letters from Clarke to Fogarty and Padraig MacKernan covering a
copy of a draft text on decision making in the Council which
Dooge is to put to the Committee, not included (7 March 1985,
2pp);
letter from Clarke to Garret FitzGerald covering a copy of the draft
report to the European Council, not included (18 March 1985,
1p);
letter from Dooge to Bettino Craxi, covering a copy of the
Committee’s draft report, not included (18 March 1985, 2pp);
letter from Dooge to Bettino Craxi discussing the possibility of the
Committee continuing to make themselves available to the Italian
Presidency during the period of March–June 1985 (19 March
1985, 1p);
letter from Clarke to Arthur Plunkett covering a copy of the draft
report, not included (21 March 1985, 1p);
letter from Dooge to Mary Tinney, Irish Ambassador to Belgium,
thanking her for her and her staff’s assistance throughout the
Committee’s work (4 April 1985, 1p).
1.2.4.5 Irish Neutrality
P270/195
October 1981–September 1983
8 items
Briefing papers on Irish neutrality
Full brief on Irish neutrality prepared for Dooge by the DFA. The
contents of this file have been left in their original order, and
although there is a contents page, some of the items listed are not
present.
Includes:
 statements on Irish neutrality and defence policy 1982–83 (27
September 1983, 2pp);
 statements on Irish neutrality and defence policy 1978–81
([September 1983], 4pp);
 statements on Irish neutrality and defence policy 1960–78
([September 1983], 7pp);
 speech by Minister of State Jim O’Keeffe at Tipperary Festival of
Peace (5 September 1983, 9pp);
 DFA Estimates Speech (1983, 19pp);
 statement by the Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, in the Dáil on the
Falklands Crisis (18 May 1982, 5pp);
 Dáil debate on nomination of the Senator James Dooge as MFA
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(20 October 1981, 20pp);
paper read by Dennis Kennedy of the Irish Times at the Irish
Council of the European Movement Seminar on Irish Neutrality
and European Unity (29 April 1983, 13pp).
November 1981–[1984]
5 items
Further briefing on Irish neutrality
File of documents on Irish neutrality provided to Dooge by the DFA
for briefing purposes.
Includes:
 paper titled ‘Military Neutrality’ which discusses Ireland’s position
with reference to fellow member states’ participation in defence
organisations ([1984], 5pp);
 extract from a paper presented to the Royal Irish Academy by an
unnamed author on Ireland’s relationship with the United Nations
(20 November 1981, 6pp);
 confidential letter from the Irish Ambassador in Moscow to
Padraic MacKernan in the DFA discussing the Italo-German EEC
Initiative and Irish neutrality (23 November 1981, 13pp);
 Dáil statement by the Taoiseach, Garret FitzGerald, on the
meeting of the European Council held in London on 26–27
November 1981 (November 1981, 14pp);
 notes by Dooge on Irish neutrality, which appear to have been in
relation to a Senate debate on same (not dated, 4pp).
P270/197
15–16 October 1985
2 items
Disarm interview
Transcript of an interview of Dooge by Paul Leech of Disarm magazine
on the topics of Irish neutrality and the Ad Hoc Committee, with a
signed covering note from Leech.
P270/198
8–25 April 1983
2 items
Opinion of John Blayney SC on a proposal to amend the
European Community Treaties
Opinion of Blayney on the above proposal, which refers to the matter
of extra-territorial jurisdiction and extradition for criminal offences
which are breaches of EEC rules. Also includes a cover note by
‘P.D.S.’ to the Attorney General discussing Blayney’s position and
related issues.
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December 1984
2pp
Letter from Dooge to John Rogers
Letter to the Attorney General requesting a consultation with Rogers
about the possible Constitutional implications of any suggestions
which might be discussed or adopted by the Ad Hoc Committee.
P270/200
20 March 1985
2pp
Letter from Arthur Plunkett to the DFA
Plunkett writes from the Office of the Attorney General to the
Secretary of the DFA discussing ‘proposals in the Report of the Dooge
Committee [which] are liable to give rise to various legal problems’.
P270/201
11 June 1985
3pp
Letter from John [Lawler] to the DFA
[Lawler] writes on behalf of the Irish Ambassador to Germany to the
Secretary of the DFA discussing the new ‘Action Committee for
Europe’.
P270/202
11 June 1985
2pp
Discussion of the Dooge Report’s proposals
Discussion of the proposals and precedents for avoiding
Constitutional referendum, written by Jane Liddy and addressed to
Mr. Sheridan.
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P270/203
9–27 November 1984
5 items
Interim Report
File of material originally stored in a manila folder and titled ‘Interim
Report’.
Includes:
 note by an unidentified author on the work of the Committee to
date and its interim report ([December], 3pp);
 aide-memoire by John Clarke containing some observations made
by participants of the meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee on 7–8
November where the interim report was discussed (9 November,
9pp);
 an unrevised text of the interim report (November, 25pp);
 draft of the interim report containing amendments (23 November,
134pp);
 letter from Dooge to Garret FitzGerald which covered a copy of the
completed interim report, not included (27 November, 2pp).
P270/204
November 1984
9 items
Preparation of the Interim Report
File of material originally stored in a manila folder and titled
‘Preparation of the Interim Report’. Consists of proposals for working
methods, drafts and amendments proposed by members, and a copy
of the report to be put before the European Council. Much of this
material echoes that contained in the Working Documents A series.
P270/205
26 November 1984
7pp
Notes from Foreign Affairs Council
Notes made by Ambassador O’Rourke after a lunchtime discussion
during the Foreign Affairs Council which included comments on the
work of the Committee and the interim report. Participants included
Leo Tindemans and Gaston Thorn.
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3–4 December 1984
29pp
Interim Report to the European Council
Copy of the finalised interim report.
P270/207
10 December 1984
2pp
Motion for a resolution
Tabled by Spinelli and others on behalf of the European People’s
Party on the outcome of the European Council in Dublin in response
to the interim report by the Ad Hoc Committee.
P270/208
3–4 December 1984
19pp
Statement by Garret FitzGerald on the European Council
Statement by the Taoiseach to the Dáil on the Council in Dublin,
during which he discussed the Ad Hoc Committee.
P270/209
6 December 1984
12pp
Speech by Charles Haughey
Speech given by the leader of Fianna Fáil on the European summit.
P270/210
11 December 1984
27pp
Address by Garret FitzGerald
The Taoiseach’s address to the European Parliament during which he
discusses the Committee and Community enlargement.
P270/211
18 January 1985
2pp
Memorandum from the Irish Ambassador to Belgium
Confidential memo discussing the Belgian attitudes to the Ad Hoc
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Committee and its work.
P270/212
6 February 1985
3pp
Report from the Irish Embassy in London
Extract from a report from the Embassy on a conversation between
Paul Dempsey and Robin Renwick of the FCO. Sent to John Clarke
by ‘Frank’ in the DFA.
P270/213
15–20 February 1985
3pp
Letter from Felipe Gonzalez Marquez
The Spanish Prime Minister writes to thank Dooge for sending him a
copy of the interim report. In Spanish. Also includes a translated
copy and cover letter from Spanish Ambassador to Ireland Luis
Jordana de Pozas.
P270/214
20 February 1985
1p
Letter from Jean Batdebat
The French Ambassador to Ireland invites Dooge to a dinner for all
the Committee members to be given by French Minister for External
Affairs, Roland Dumas, at the French Embassy in Brussels.
P270/215
25 February 1985
1p
Telex from the Irish Embassy in Rome
Sent by P. Gallagher to all Irish embassies in member states, the
message contains information on Italian attitudes to the Dooge
Report and their opinion on whether it should continue into the next
Presidency.
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February–March 1985
12 items
Responses from the meeting on 12 February 1985
Letters to Dooge following on from the meeting held with Irish
individuals, including Pierce Ryan, Miriam Hederman-O’Brien,
Dermot Scott and Patrick Keatinge, to get their views on the work of
the Committee. These responses offer reflections on some of the
issues raised. Also includes a copy of the invitation to the meeting, a
draft agenda for same, and four pages of handwritten notes taken by
Dooge.
P270/217
March–April 1985
24 items
Preparation of the Final Report
File
of
material
stored
together
by
Dooge
in
a
folder titled ‘Preparation of the Final Report’. The file consists mainly
of responses from Irish embassies in fellow member states to a
request from John Clarke that they gauge the general feeling about
the forthcoming Dooge Report in political circles. There is also a
small amount of correspondence between Dooge and other
Committee members, via their respective embassies, confirming final
textual changes and additions to the report. Also includes a signed
letter from Bettino Craxi, thanking Dooge for the Committee’s work (4
April, 3pp).
P270/218
13–26 March 1985
12 items
Telexes from Irish embassies
Telexes sent to Proinsias Gallagher of the DFA from the Irish
ambassadors to Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Germany, France,
Denmark and the Netherlands, in response to a request from
Gallagher that they gauge general political attitudes to the
forthcoming Dooge Report.
P270/219
20–21 March 1985
11 items
Opinions of Government Departments
Responses from several Irish government departments in response to
being sent a version of the Dooge Report by Proinsias Gallagher and
invited to give their department’s observations on same. Departments
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represented include: Energy; Labour; Industry, Trade Commerce and
Tourism; Communications; Environment; Finance; Social Welfare;
Justice; Agriculture; Health; and also the Office of the Attorney
General.
P270/220
25 March 1984
13pp
Points for consideration of the Dooge Report
Points prepared by the Economic Division of the DFA for the
Taoiseach’s briefing on the forthcoming Dooge Report.
P270/221
28 March 1985
1p
Memorandum by Katherine Meenan for Garret FitzGerald
Memo containing some points raised by Dooge for the Taoiseach’s
attention, including that requesting the Committee to review their
text on voting in the Report ‘could only disrupt the fragile consensus
which exists’.
P270/222
29–30 March 1985
69pp
Report to the European Council and Comparison with the Draft
Treaty establishing the European Union
The final report by the Ad Hoc Committee for Institutional Affairs,
otherwise known as the Dooge Report.
P270/223
4 April 1985
3pp
Letter from the Irish Embassy in Paris to the DFA
Letter sent on behalf of the Irish Ambassador enclosing a copy of an
article mentioning the Dooge Report in Le Monde. It is noted that the
work of the Committee ‘is the subject of favourable comment’.
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9–24 April 1985
2 items
Letters from Brigid Laffan to Dooge
Laffan writes in her capacity as Secretary of the Irish Association for
European Studies inviting Dooge to a seminar on European union (9
April, 1p) and subsequently thanks him for his participation (24
April, 1p).
P270/225
9 April 1985
16pp
European Parliament Working Document A 2-17/85
A working document relating to the tabling of the Dooge Report and
the appointment of L. Croux as rapporteur.
P270/226
10–12 April 1985
2 items
Correspondence between Dermot Nally and Robin Fogarty
Fogarty, Deputy Secretary in the DFA, writes to Nally at the
Department of the Taoiseach discussing briefing guidelines for Irish
MEPs ahead of the European Parliament’s debate on the Dooge
Report. Walter Kirwan replies to Fogarty on Nally’s behalf.
P270/227
16–17 April 1985
1p
Itinerary for visit to Strasbourg
Dooge’s schedule for a visit to attend the European Parliament
debate on the Dooge Report.
P270/228
17 April 1985
3pp
Speech by Mark Clinton MEP
Speech delivered by Clinton on the Dooge Report in the European
Parliament.
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25 April 1985
1p
Letter from John Clarke to Katherine Meenan
Covering the minutes of last Wednesday’s Parliamentary sitting,
which are not included.
P270/230
25 April–7 May 1985
9 items
Telexes from Irish embassies
Messages sent in further response for a DFA request for information
on attitudes towards the Dooge Report. Responses represent the
French, German, Dutch, Italian, and Belgian feelings, and the
messages are covered by a letter from Frank [Sheridan] at the DFA to
John Clarke.
P270/231
6–7 May 1985
18pp
‘Relaunching Western Europe: Implications for the European
Community and its Institutions’
Report on a round table discussion organised by the European
Institute of Public Administration in Maastricht by John Clarke, who
attended at Dooge’s request.
P270/232
6–7 July 1985
13pp
‘Ireland and the Western European Union’
A paper prepared by for the round table discussion in the previous
item by Patrick Keatinge of Trinity College Dublin.
P270/233
10 May 1985
1p
Letter from Jacques Delors to Dooge
Original, signed letter thanking Dooge for his recent correspondence.
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13 May 1985
2pp
Letter from Marcelino Oreja to Dooge
Original, signed letter in which the Secretary General of the Council
of Europe thanks Dooge for sending him a copy of the Dooge Report.
P270/235
14 May 1985
3pp
Telex from the Irish Embassy in Rome
Sent from Rome to the DFA, the message discusses fellow member
states’ opinions of and enthusiasm for a possible inter-governmental
conference following on from the Dooge Report.
P270/236
14 May 1985
5 items
Monnet Committee material
Three documents relating to the Monnet Committee (1983), and a
cover letter from John Clarke to Dooge mentioning that these are the
materials sent to Dooge by Max Kohnstamm in February.
P270/237
14 May 1985
2pp
Meeting with Mauro Ferri
Notes on a meeting with the Italian representative on the Ad Hoc
Committee during which he is said to have been ‘reasonably
reassuring’ about Irish points of concern.
P270/238
16 May 1985
2 items
Letter from Walter Kirwan to the Secretary to the Government
Kirwan, Assistant Secretary in the Department of the Taoiseach,
discusses the timing and basis of Dáil debate on the Dooge Report
and European union.
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29 May 1985
6pp
‘The Work of the Ad Hoc Committee on Institutional Affairs’
A draft document detailing the work process of the Committee, with
some pages missing. There is an additional note on the veto,
with the names Professor James Dooge and Tony Browne noted as
authors.
P270/240
31 May 1985
2pp
Telex from the Irish Ambassador to Germany
Message from Bonn to the DFA on the German press reaction to a
meeting between Chancellor Kohl and President Mitterrand.
P270/241
May 1985
16pp
Memorandum for the Government on the Dooge Report
Confidential memorandum on the Report and its implications for
Ireland, prepared by the DFA.
P270/242
3 June 1985
2pp
Telex from Irish Ambassador to Germany
The Ambassador messages the DFA to discuss German preparations
for the Milan European Council.
P270/243
4 June 1985
2pp
Telex from Irish Ambassador to Portugal to the DFA
Discusses a briefing given by the Italian Ambassador to Portugal to
his fellow member state representatives in Lisbon on a visit by Mauro
Ferri to the city.
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P270/244
4 June 1985
3pp
Telex from Irish Ambassador to Greece to the DFA
Discusses Greek political developments.
P270/245
4–5 June 1985
2 items
Telexes from Irish Ambassador to Italy to the DFA
Discusses a briefing of all Community ambassadors in Rome, in the
Farnesina.
P270/246
5 June 1985
1p
Letter from Roberto [Nigiolo]
Holograph letter from [Nigiolo] on behalf of himself and Mauro Ferri
to Dooge, sending their condolences on the sudden death of John
Clarke.
P270/247
8 June 1985
14pp
Report on informal meeting of Foreign Ministers
Notes on a meeting of Community Foreign Ministers during which
European integration was discussed, amongst other matters.
P270/248
18 June 1985
1p
Letter from Walter Kirwan to Dooge
Letter of condolence from the Assistant Secretary in the Department
of the Taoiseach on the death of John Clarke. Kirwan encloses some
recent reports, which are not included here.
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18 June 1985
4pp
Briefing for the Taoiseach’s meeting with Prime Minister Craxi
Steering note on the Dooge Report, prepared by the Economic
Division of the DFA, in preparation for FitzGerald’s meetings with
Craxi in Rome (19 June) and President Mitterrand in Paris (21 June).
P270/250
26 June 1985
37pp
Statement by Garret FitzGerald on the Dooge Report
Delivered in Seanad Éireann by the Taoiseach on the Report and also
on European developments generally.
P270/251
26 June 1985
16pp
Statement by Charles Haughey on the Dooge Report
Delivered in Dáil Éireann.
P270/252
28–29 June 1985
5pp
European Council Programme
Programme for a meeting of the Council in Castello Sforzesco, Milan
to be attended by Dooge as well as Garret FitzGerald and Peter Barry.
P270/253
28–29 June 1985
2 items
European Integration: Economic Convergence
Speaking points and a steering note on the topic of economic
convergence for the European Council meeting in Milan, prepared by
the DFA for the Irish delegation.
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P270/254
28–29 June 1985
3 items
European Integration: Decision Making
Speaking note, briefing note and a steering note on the topic of
decision making for the European Council meeting in Milan,
prepared by the DFA for the Irish delegation.
P270/255
28–29 June 1985
3pp
European Integration: Institutional Reform
Briefing note on the topic of institutional reform for the European
Council meeting in Milan, prepared by the DFA for the Irish
delegation.
P270/256
28–29 June 1985
11pp
European Integration: The Development of European Political
Cooperation
Steering note on the topic of European political cooperation for the
European Council meeting in Milan, prepared by the DFA for the
Irish delegation.
P270/257
28–29 June 1985
3pp
European Integration: European Monetary System
Briefing on the topic of the EMS for the European Council meeting in
Milan, prepared by the DFA for the Irish delegation.
P270/258
28–29 June 1985
7 items
European Integration: Technological Cooperation (including
EUREKA)
Briefing documents on the topic of technological cooperation
(including the EUREKA proposal) for the European Council meeting
in Milan, prepared by the DFA for the Irish delegation. Includes a
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table of contents, although two of the documents listed are not
present.
P270/259
28–29 June 1985
3 items
European Integration: Internal Market
Steering note and views of the Department of Finance on the topic of
the internal market for the European Council meeting in Milan,
prepared by the DFA for the Irish delegation.
P270/260
28–29 June 1985
7 items
Draft Conclusions of the European Council
Draft conclusions arising from the Council meeting in Milan.
Includes conclusions on the Dooge Report as well as a range of other
items discussed, including terrorism and hijacking, relations with the
Council of Europe, Afghanistan, apartheid in South Africa, and the
Middle East.
P270/261
25 November 1985
1p
Letter from Max Kohnstamm to Dooge
Original, signed letter in which Kohnstamm discusses the agenda of
an inter-governmental conference on European integration.
P270/262
[1985]
21pp
‘The European Council’s Ad Hoc Committee on Institutional
Affairs (1984–85)’
A draft of a section of a TEPSA (Trans European Policy Studies
Association) project called ‘From Community to Union’, written by
Patrick Keatinge and Anna Murphy.
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2.1 Anglo-Irish Relations
2.1.1 Anglo-Irish Joint Studies
P270/263
May 1980–April 1981
21 items
Joint Studies: General Brief
Softbound copy of a general brief on the Joint Studies, comprising
twenty individual documents and a summary note on the
background to the process. There is a contents list of the documents,
which are separated by tabs and include communiqués and telexes
relating to meetings between the Irish and British governments,
transcripts of press conferences given by both governments,
transcripts of media coverage of the process, and reports of several
meetings relating to the process.
P270/264
March–May 1981
7 items
Joint Study on Possible New Institutional Structures
Softbound copy of documents relating to this joint study, comprising
six individual documents and a note describing the background to
the formation of this Working Group and its membership. There is a
contents list of the documents, which are separated by tabs and
include reports of meetings of the Group, British and Irish papers
relating to the work of the Group, and a discussion paper on the
approach of the Irish side to the work of the Group.
P270/265
March–August 1981
9 items
Joint Study on Security Matters
Softbound copy of documents relating to this joint study, comprising
eight individual documents and a summary note describing the
background to the formation of this Working Group and its
membership. The documents are separated by tabs and include
reports of meetings of the Group and a copy of the Group’s report.
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P270/266
March–July 1981
8 items
Joint Study on Measures to Encourage Mutual Understanding
Softbound copy of documents relating to this joint study, comprising
seven individual documents and a note describing the background to
the formation of this Working Group and its membership. The
documents are separated by tabs and include reports of meetings of
the Group, and British and Irish papers relating to the work of the
Group on topics such as culture and university places.
P270/267
April–July 1981
4 items
Joint Study on Economic Cooperation
Softbound copy of documents relating to this joint study, comprising
three individual documents and a note describing the background to
the formation of this Working Group and its membership. The
documents are separated by tabs and include a report of a meeting of
the Group, draft texts for inclusion in a report for the Prime Minister
and Taoiseach, and a copy of that report.
P270/268
March–July 1981
8 items
Joint Study on Citizenship Rights
Softbound copy of documents relating to this joint study, comprising
seven individual documents and a summary note describing the
background to the formation of this Working Group and its
membership. There is a contents list of the documents, which are
separated by tabs and include reports of meetings of the Group,
British and Irish papers relating to the work of the Group, and a
draft framework report on the work of this Group which was
prepared by the British side.
P270/269
October–November 1981
6 items
Draft Joint Report of the Anglo-Irish Studies
Final draft of the joint report resulting from the joint studies
commissioned by the Taoiseach and Prime Minister in December
1980. Also included are copies of the final reports from the Joint
Study Working Groups on Possible New Institutional Structures,
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Citizenship Rights, Security Matters, Economic Cooperation, and
Measures to Encourage Mutual Understanding, which were
submitted to the Joint Steering Group for inclusion in the Joint
Report.
P270/270
11 November 1981
58pp
Anglo-Irish Joint Studies Reports
Printed copy of the finalised reports as presented by Taoiseach Garret
FitzGerald to both houses of the Oireachtas. Dooge has handwritten
the page numbers for the reports on Institutional Structures,
Economic Cooperation and Mutual Understanding on the front cover.
P270/271
23–26 February 1982
4 items
Follow-up to Joint Studies
Memorandum to the Government on points for action resulting from
the Anglo-Irish Joint Studies, a list of action points from the Joint
Study on Security Matter, and a note on the Anglo-Irish Encounter
Organisation with a cover note from M. Hennessy. These documents
were stored together in a manila folder titled ‘Follow-up to Joint
Studies’, and were covered by a note from [C.] Neligan to the MFA.
2.1.2 Meetings with Prime Minister and Northern Ireland Secretary of
State
P270/272
October 1981
8 items
Meeting with Northern Ireland Secretary of State
Softbound brief for the MFA ahead of a meeting with the Secretary of
State James Prior (incompletely named here as James Michael
Leathes). The file includes eight individual documents, separated by
tabs. It includes a curriculum vitae for Prior and briefing documents
which relate to topics such as economic cooperation, security
cooperation, administration of justice in Northern Ireland, and
proportional representation.
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6 November 1981
16 items
Garret FitzGerald’s meeting with Margaret Thatcher
Softbound brief for the MFA ahead of a meeting between the
Taoiseach and the British Prime Minister. The file includes fourteen
individual documents, separated by tabs. It includes a contents table
which divides these background documents into sections: General
(containing a timetable and biographical notes), Political (analysis of
the current political situation, reports of conversations and meetings,
Joint Studies material, and a DFA note on local government abuses
in Northern Ireland), Economic (notes on British subvention to
Northern Ireland, security costs, electricity interconnector, and
Dublin-Belfast gas pipeline) and Security (note on an All-Ireland
Court and press reports of remarks by Molyneaux on security
cooperation).
P270/274
29 January 1982
24 items
Meeting with Northern Ireland Secretary of State
File of material prepared for the MFA ahead of his meeting with
Secretary of State James Prior.
Includes:
 list of objectives for the meeting, to be held in London on 29
January (January, 3pp);
 memorandum by Michael Lillis in the Department of the
Taoiseach on the SDLP talks with Secretary Prior (13 January,
2pp);
 transcript of an interview by Prior on Today Tonight, with a cover
note from Liam Hourican, Government Press Secretary, to the
Taoiseach (19 January, 12pp);
 letter from Daithi Ó Ceallaigh, Press and Information Officer at
the Irish Embassy in London, to Margaret Hennessy, Anglo-Irish
Division of the DFA, discussing reports from Harold McCusker
that Prior ‘will shortly announce that he intends to have elections
for a Northern Ireland Assembly’ (20 January, 3pp);
 report by M. Burke of a meeting between Prior and the Alliance
Party on his plans for implementing ‘some form of devolved
government’ (20 January, 3pp);
 report from M. Burke of conversations with Reverend Smyth and
David Trimble on the ‘Prior Initiative’ (21 January, 2pp);
 notes on the Irish identity and Irish dimension in the context of
the arrangements for devolved government in Northern Ireland
contemplated
by
Prior
and
also
of
the
Anglo-Irish
Intergovernmental Council, written by William Kirwan of the
Department of the Taoiseach (21 January, 7pp);
 ‘Mr. Prior’s Options for Devolved Government’, prepared by the
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
DFA (January, 6pp);
notes on the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Council, prepared by
the Anglo-Irish section of the DFA (January, 3pp);
letter from MFA to Secretary Prior conveying the Irish
government’s concern regarding Prior’s proposals for devolution
([January], 3pp);
reply from Prior, sent via British Ambassador to Ireland Leonard
Figg to Dooge, in which he declines to go into detail but assures
Dooge that no proposals will be announced in the middle of the
Irish election campaign, and that he will keep MFA Dooge and the
Taoiseach fully informed about the proposals. Dooge has
handwritten some notes on the Figg letter’s copy (18 February,
2pp);
collection of speaking notes prepared by the DFA for MFA’s
meeting with Prior on topics including Prior’s devolution initiative,
the current political situation in Northern Ireland, the Anglo-Irish
Intergovernmental Council, the Joint Study on Economic
Cooperation, prison protests in Northern Ireland, fugitive
offenders, the security situation in South Armagh, security
cooperation, Carlingford Lough issues, exports of bread to
Northern Ireland, the Newry/Dundalk Tourism Study, the
Kinsale/Belfast gas pipeline, and Cooperation North ([January],
13 items).
2.1.3 Hunger Strikes
P270/275
March 1981
16pp
‘Day to Day Life in Northern Ireland Prisons’
Copy of a booklet published by the Northern Ireland Office which
details rules, regulations and typical procedures in Northern Irish
prisons. Includes current rules on dealing with protesting prisoners.
P270/276
6 July 1981
13pp
Notes on Hunger Strikes
Handwritten notes by Dooge on the issues surrounding the Hunger
Strikes. These are mainly in bullet point form, but he mentions a
‘moral obligation’ and a press conference to be called on Tuesday 7
July 1981. He also quotes H[ugh] Logue in his notes and notes some
of the prisoner demands, namely their being allowed to receive ‘8
letters, 4 visits, 4 parcels [per month]’.
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8 July 1981
4pp
Summary of the Irish Commission for Justice and Peace
proposals
Summary of the ICJP’s proposals for a H-Blocks settlement as
presented to the British Government.
P270/278
8 July 1981
3pp
Statement by the Irish Commission for Justice and Peace
Statement released by the ICJP following the death of Joe McDonnell,
detailing the communications between themselves and the Northern
Ireland Office in the days leading up to McDonnell’s death.
P270/279
13 July 1981
7pp
Meeting at Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Summary report of the meeting held on 10 July between an Irish
delegation, consisting of MFA John Kelly, Minister Designate Dooge
and officials from the DFA and Department of the Taoiseach, with a
British delegation which included Sir Ian Gilmour (the Lord Privy
Seal) and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. The meeting
was convened in the wake of the 1981 Irish general election (which
resulted in a new MFA and Minister Designate) to discuss the
situation in Northern Ireland, specifically ‘the present Maze crisis’.
P270/280
13 July 1981
2pp
Note for Minister Designate
Note from Padraic MacKernan in Brussels regarding a potential
meeting between Minister Designate Dooge and Lord Carrington in
relation to the situation in the Maze.
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13 July 1981
2pp
Dooge’s notes for meeting with Lord Carrington
Notes prepared by the DFA for the MFA in advance of his meeting
with Carrington in which the Irish Government asks the British ‘to
act with urgency… the policy of waiting for total surrender of the
prisoners without any meaningful discussions… offers no hope for
any of the parties involved’.
P270/282
13 July 1982
4pp
Report on meeting between Dooge and Carrington
Report prepared by Padraic MacKernan after the meeting in which
Dooge put forward the Irish Government’s concerns and suggestions
regarding the hunger strikes.
P270/283
13 July 1981
12pp
Summary note on meeting between Dooge and Julian Bullard
Report of the meeting between Dooge and the UK Political Director in
Brussels, prepared by Padraic MacKernan, during which Dooge
reiterated the points he had made to Carrington and spoke further
about the danger of the strikes being internationalised.
P270/284
14 July 1981
1p
Letter from Garret FitzGerald to Ronald Reagan
Copy of the letter handed to President Reagan during a visit of his to
the Irish Embassy in Washington DC, written by the Taoiseach and
requesting that Reagan use his ‘enormous influence with the British
Prime Minister’ to avert the imminent death of Kieran Doherty.
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15 July 1981
1p
Notes on a telephone call between Dooge and Sir Ian Gilmour
Notes of a call during which Dooge and Gilmour discussed the
possible role for the European Commission of Human Rights, and
Gilmour expressed the view ‘that it had not been helpful to bring
President Reagan into the matter’.
P270/286
16 July 1981
4pp
Report of a meeting between Dooge and Leonard Figg
Report prepared by Andrew O’Rourke of the DFA on the meeting
between the Minister Designate Dooge and the British Ambassador to
Ireland. The meeting, held at Dooge’s request, consisted of
discussions about the hunger strikes, actions taken to this point and
ended with Dooge urging Ambassador Figg to convey the information
back to London that Kieran Doherty ‘might not live the night’.
P270/287
16 July 1981
2pp
Notes of a telephone call between Dooge and Sir Ian Gilmour
Prepared and signed by William Kirwan of the DFA. Dooge had
requested to speak to Humphrey Atkins, Minister of State for
Northern Ireland, or Minister for State Alison but was instead called
by Gilmour. He discusses the health of hunger striker Kieran
Doherty, and the belief that he might die that night. Gilmour states
the British belief that ‘Doherty was holding his own’. Dooge
communicates the Irish position, that ‘an official should be sent in to
the prison to give the prisoners a simple explanation’ of the British
proposals for improvements in prison conditions. Gilmour also
mentions ‘the influence on the hunger-strikers of others’, to which
Dooge responds that he is ‘trying to minimize the influence of these
people’.
P270/288
17 July 1981
4pp
Note of the Taoiseach’s meeting with hunger strikers’ relatives
Details of FitzGerald’s third meeting with relatives of the hunger
strikers Kieran Doherty, Kevin Lynch, Michael Devine, Laurence
McKeown and Thomas McElwee.
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P270/289
18 July 1981
1p
Note verbale from the Irish Government to the British
Government
Sent from the DFA, the note verbale repeats ‘with renewed urgency
(the Irish) request to the British Government to send in a senior
official…authorised to put forward a solution’. In the closing
paragraph it states that ‘should action not be taken by the British
authorities… a grave situation would arise between our two
countries’.
P270/290
19 July 1981
1p
Note verbale from the British Government to the Irish
Government
Addresses the points made in the previous Irish note verbale and
says that negotiations are not possible: ‘if the British authorities
allow negotiations now they will be faced with all manner of requests
in future’.
P270/291
19 July 1981
2pp
Note on a meeting between Dooge and Leonard Figg
Report of a meeting during which the note verbale (P270/290) was
presented to Dooge by the British Ambassador.
P270/292
21 July 1981
2pp
Memorandum from Liam Hourican to Garret FitzGerald
The Government Press Secretary writes to the Taoiseach discussing
possible reactions in the event of Kieran Doherty’s death.
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23 July 1981
6pp
Speaking notes for Garret FitzGerald’s meeting with Leonard
Figg
Discussion of the hunger strike situation and specifically, a letter
from Margaret Thatcher which was delivered to United States
politicians and published, ‘which contained a unilateral version of
[FitzGerald’s] position in relation to the hunger strike which is
misleading and which was known to the British Government… not to
represent [FitzGerald’s] position of that of [his] Government’.
P270/294
24 July 1981
2pp
Memorandum from D.M. Neligan to Dooge
Neligan informs Dooge that Ambassador Figg will visit him today as
requested, and discusses the visit of the Duke of Norfolk to the Maze
on 22 July, which he feels was concealed from the Irish Government
by the Northern Ireland Office.
P270/295
24 July 1981
5pp
Notes for background briefing given by Dooge to Political
Correspondents
Prepared by Liam Hourican in the Department of the Taoiseach.
P270/296
24 July 1981
3pp
Notes on a telephone call between D.M. Neligan and Mr. Wyatt
Notes of a discussion between Neligan of the DFA, and Wyatt,
Northern Ireland Office, about Brendan MacFarlane offering to play ‘a
minor and apparently passive role in a meeting between British
Officials [and] the Hunger-Strikers’.
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P270/297
24 July 1981
6pp
Note on a meeting between Dooge and Leonard Figg
Report of a meeting called by Dooge at the DFA in order to put some
points to the British Ambassador, a list of which are included. These
relate to the role of Brendan MacFarlane in meetings between the
hunger strikers, their families and priests. Also included is a note
from D.M. Neligan outlining to the MFA the telephone call he had
with the Northern Ireland Office official, Wyatt, full details of which
are given in P270/296.
P270/298
24 July 1981
4pp
Telex from ‘Minister’ to D.M. Neligan
Report of a meeting between the ‘Minister’, possibly Acting MFA John
Kelly, and Tom Arnold MP, Parliamentary Private Secretary to
Minister of State for Northern Ireland Humphrey Atkins, at the House
of Commons in London. Points discussed include the issue of
freedom of association of prisoners, the fact that adverse reactions to
British policy in the United States are having ’the opposite effect to
that intended’, and Arnold’s ‘principal message’, that ‘the British are
not inflexible on the hunger strikes and that there is a limited scope
for further concession’.
P270/299
24 July 1981
2pp
Memorandum from Liam Hourican to Garret FitzGerald
Memo from Hourican, Department of the Taoiseach, to the Taoiseach
outlining the ‘Conference Proposal’, a British proposal to hold a
conference or seminar which would include the hunger strikers,
relatives, priests, Northern Ireland Office officials and possibly
Brendan MacFarlane. This proposal was relayed to Hourican by
Jimmy Canning, a councillor from Coalisland in county Tyrone.
P270/300
25 July 1981
3pp
Note on a meeting between Dooge and Leonard Figg
Notes on a meeting between the Minister Designate and the British
Ambassador, during which Figg conveyed the British Government’s
response to the points made by Dooge in their meeting of 24 July
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P270/301
25 July 1981
2pp
Dooge’s notes on the ‘Conference Proposal’
Two pages of handwritten notes by Dooge on the proposal which was
communicated to the Irish Government by Councillor Louis Canning.
P270/302
27 July 1981
5pp
Letter from Ronald Reagan to Garret FitzGerald
The United States President’s response to FitzGerald’s letter
requesting his intervention in the hunger strike situation, in which
Reagan states that the United States will not intervene. Also includes
a memorandum by Michael Lillis of the meeting between the
Taoiseach and Charles Rushing, Charge d’Affaires at the United
States Embassy in Dublin, during which Rushing delivered the
President’s response to FitzGerald.
P270/303
27 July 1981
1p
Note on Brendan MacFarlane’s communication with Father
Toner
Report, via Councillor Jimmy Canning, that Father Toner ‘had a
piece of paper signed by Brendan McFarlane’ to the effect that they
would be willing to meet with Northern Ireland Office officials.
Written by [C.L.], possibly within the Department of the Taoiseach,
the note also discusses the Irish efforts to persuade Ambassador Figg
to communicate the content of MacFarlane’s note to Westminster.
P270/304
27 July 1981
4pp
British Information Services policy background document
Document released by the Policy and Reference Division of the
British Information Services titled ‘Northern Ireland Hunger Strikes:
Who is Being Inflexible?’ which outlines the measures taken by the
British Government to end the strikes.
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29 July 1981
2pp
Telex from the Irish Ambassador to the United States to D.M.
Neligan
The Ambassador messages Neligan in the DFA with a detailed
account of activity in Washington DC surrounding the hunger
strikes, particularly the personal and confidential letter sent to the
‘Four Horsemen’ by the Taoiseach (Senators Kennedy, O’Neill, Carey
and Lynch) and its effects.
P270/306
30 July 1981
1p
Telex from the Irish Embassy in Geneva to the DFA
Discusses the Red Cross visit to the Maze prison and their
conclusions, which are due shortly.
P270/307
30 July 1981
1p
Telex from the Irish Ambassador in London to the DFA
Report of an evening reception following the Royal wedding of the
Prince and Princess of Wales, at which the Ambassador spoke with
the Prime Minister and other members of the British Government
about the hunger strikes. Prime Minister Thatcher is described as
having been in a ‘belligerent mood’. Sir Ian Gilmour told the
Ambassador he was ‘coming to the conclusion that one way out of
the horrors of the hunger strike might have to be to knock out the
striking prisoners and while they are unconscious introduce
nutrients into their bloodstream’, but asks the Ambassador to say
nothing about the idea. The Ambassador finds this ‘bizarre’ and sees
it as indicative of the British Government’s desperation.
P270/308
30 July 1981
1p
Memorandum regarding a meeting with Leonard Figg
Report of a meeting between Figg and an unidentified member of the
Department of the Taoiseach, during which the London meeting of 29
July was discussed.
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30 July 1981
2pp
Memorandum from Liam Hourican to Garret FitzGerald
Hourican discusses the visit of Gerry Adams, amongst others, to the
prison. When asked by relatives to order the prisoners off the strike,
Adams is described as being ‘reluctant and evasive’ and ‘may have
strengthened [the relatives’] intransigence’.
P270/310
31 July 1981
3pp
Note on a meeting between D.M. Neligan and Leonard Figg
The British Ambassador calls on Neligan at the DFA to give the
British Government’s response to the Taoiseach’s representations of
23 July about Prime Minister Thatcher’s letter to American
politicians.
P270/311
31 July 1981
3pp
Memorandum from Liam Hourican to Garret FitzGerald
Hourican discusses the decision to set up the Monitoring Committee,
and how it ‘represents an important victory for the Priests,
Councillors and a number of the relatives over Sinn Fein’.
P270/312
31 July 1981
6pp
Statement by the Irish Government on H-Blocks Issue
The statement outlines the Irish position on the hunger strikes, the
difficulties encountered with the British handling of the situation,
and the obstacles put in place by the Provisional IRA leadership to
ending the strikes.
P270/313
5 August 1981
2pp
Report of a meeting between MFA and David Tatham
The MFA meets with British Charges d’Affaires Tatham to reiterate
the Government’s position and attitude on the H-Blocks issue and
also to make a concrete suggestion: that the regime proposed by the
British authorities in early July be implemented in the prison for
those prisoners who were conforming.
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12 August 1981
5pp
Memorandum from Liam Hourican to Garret FitzGerald
Hourican outlines a timeline of demands by prisoners in Northern
Ireland and concessions by the British Government between 1972
and 1977.
P270/315
17 August 1981
3pp
Memorandum from William Kirwan to Garret FitzGerald
Kirwan, Assistant Secretary in the Department of the Taoiseach,
discusses a possible Anglo-Irish meeting at official level to establish
the ‘facts’ about differences between British and Irish perceptions at
Ministerial and senior official level relating to aspects of an improved
prison regime in the H-Blocks as the basis for or to be introduced
following an end to the hunger strikes.
P270/316
20 August 1981
5 items
Brief on H-Blocks Situation
Softbound brief on the hunger strikes and related issues. The brief
contains five sections, divided by plastic tabs.
Includes sections on:
 general notes on the H-Blocks issue, including a memorandum
by D.M. Neligan (20 August, 9pp);
 general briefing note on the H-Blocks issue, including full
details of protesting prisoners (20 August, 19pp);
 the main elements of Government activity relating to the HBlocks situation, including a list of high level communications
with the British Government (20 August, 8pp);
 developments in the prisoners protests since 30 June in the
form of a day by day diary (20 August, 16pp);
 selection of main statements made by the Northern Ireland
Office, the Irish Commission for Justice and Peace and the
prisoners in July and August (20 August, 34pp).
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P270/317
26 August 1981
3pp
Prime Minister Thatcher’s response to a meeting request from
Owen Carron MP
Copy of the Prime Minister’s response to Carron’s request, as
delivered by David Tatham of the British Embassy in Dublin. An
account of Tatham’s delivery is given by William Kirwan of the
Department of the Taoiseach.
P270/318
2 September 1981
5pp
Background note on the British Government’s attitude to the HBlock hunger strike
A background note prepared by the British Embassy in Dublin. There
is an annotation on the note to the effect that it was ‘delivered
without any oral comment… Mr. Tatham telephoned to say that it
was for our background information’.
P270/319
10 September 1981
2 items
Report of a discussion between Garret FitzGerald and Kevin
Boyle and Francis Keenan
Account of a meeting which occurred on Saturday 8 June 1981, and
sent to Dooge at the request of the Taoiseach by P. Cleary, his Private
Secretary. A cover note from Cleary to Dooge is included.
2.1.4 Northern Ireland Policy Review Conferences
P270/320
August 1981
5pp
Agendas for the First Anglo-Irish Policy Review Conference
An agenda for the Conference, to be held at Iveagh House in Dublin.
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24–25 August 1981
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List of participants at the Conference
Including Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald, Tanaiste Michael O’Leary,
Minister Designate for Foreign Affairs James Dooge, and AttorneyGeneral Peter Sutherland, amongst others.
P270/322
24–25 August 1981
1p
Note for the information of DFA participants
Notes the location and times of meetings during the Conference.
P270/323
May–August 1981
27 items
List of Conference papers
File of conference papers which were circulated generally to
participants as well as two which were not circulated (the final two
listed below).
Includes:
 list of contents of these papers ([25] August, 2pp);
 the Taoiseach’s memorandum on review of Northern Ireland
policy (10 August, 5pp);
 submission by John Kelly, Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs
(14 August, 2pp);
 submission by Alan Dukes, Minister for Agriculture (14 August,
3pp);
 ‘Review of Northern Ireland Policy’ by William Kirwan,
Department of the Taoiseach (20 August, 9pp);
 ‘Review of Government Policy on Northern Ireland’ by Michael
Lillis, Department of the Taoiseach (21 August, 6pp);
 report on the general political situation in Northern Ireland by
the Department of Foreign Affairs (August, 6pp);
 report on Unionist attitudes by Martin Burke of the DFA, who
undertook a visit to Northern Ireland (20 August, 8pp);
 report on contacts with Unionists since 1977, again by Martin
Burke (21 August, 3pp);
 reports from the Irish Embassy in London by Ambassador
Kennedy and Dáithí Ó Ceallaigh (18 August, 2 items);
 paper on the British attitude to the strategic importance of
Northern Ireland by the Department of Defence (18 August,
12pp);
 telex message from Ambassador Seán Donlon in Washington on
the United States dimension in Anglo-Irish relations (14
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paper on European political cooperation and Northern Ireland
by the DFA (19 August, 6pp);
paper on Anglo-Irish policy in the European Parliament, from
the Permanent Representation in Brussels (14 August, 2pp);
summary of observations of selected Irish Missions on
perception abroad of current Government policy on Northern
Ireland, prepared by the DFA (21 August, 13pp);
‘The Northern Ireland Problem in the Context of the European
Community’ by t. O’Sullivan of the DFA, and a comment on this
paper by John Swift of the Permanent Representation in
Brussels (24 July–21 August, 16pp);
‘Northern Ireland – Where Do We Go From Here?’, a paper
submitted by the Permanent Representative to the United
Nations, Ambassador Noel Dorr. A separate summary is also
attached (20–22 August, 2 items);
Two papers submitted by the Permanent Representation at the
United Nations to the Conference on the Northern Ireland
problem (15 May–21 August, 2 items);
reports of conversations with Harold McCusker, MP, and
Seamus Mallon of the Social Democratic and Labour Party,
prepared by the DFA (21–22 August, 2 items);
‘Policy Review on Northern Ireland’, a paper prepared by Seán Ó
Huiginn at the Consulate General in New York (August, 23pp);
memorandum drafted by D. Neligan on the hunger strike (7
August, 4pp);
the Taoiseach’s opening remarks at the Conference (24 August,
4pp);
paper on the evolution of policy on Northern Ireland, prepared
by the Department of the Taoiseach (21 August, 10pp).
24–26 August 1981
25pp
Dooge’s notes from the Conference
Dooge’s handwritten notes taken during both days of the Conference.
P270/325
August–September 1981
4 items
Government Memoranda on the Conference
Memoranda summarising the Conference, prepared by the DFA and
the Department of the Taoiseach.
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P270/326
September 1981–January 1982
2 items
Agenda, papers and conclusions of the Second Anglo-Irish Policy
Review Conference
Two softbound volumes of material relating to the Conference, held in
Dublin on 18 January 1982. Some items listed in the contents are
missing but can be found in P270/327. This item is stored in two
folders due to its size.
Includes:
 list of contents of both volumes (January 1982, 1p);
 conclusions of the previous Conference (30 September 1981,
13pp);
 a report from Ambassador Kennedy on the present situation as
seen from London and accounts of conversations with senior
Northern Ireland Office officials (22 December 1981, 11pp);
 ‘Security in the Wider Context’, a paper prepared by the
Department of Justice (January 1982, 6pp);
 paper on political aspects of security policy by Michael Lillis (7
January 1982, 6pp);
 notes on the present position regarding extradition, prepared by
the Attorney-General’s Office (4 January 1982, 10pp);
 ‘North-South Security Cooperation’ by the Department of
Justice ([January 1982], 2pp);
 ‘Joint Interrogation’ by the Department of Justice ([January
1982], 6pp);
 ‘An All-Ireland Court’ by the Attorney-General’s Office and the
Department of the Taoiseach ([January 1982], 5pp);
 ‘Legality of Sinn Féin/Irish Republican Socialist Party in the
State’ by the Department of Justice ([January 1982], 2pp);
 comments of the Department of Justice papers by Michael Lillis
(11 January 1982, 6pp);
 summary of areas in which suggestions have been made to
make Criminal Law Jurisdiction Act of 1976 more effective, by
G. O’Connor in the Anglo-Irish Section of the DFA (5 January
1982, 5pp);
 report of a meeting between the Irish and British Attorneys
General ([January 1982], 6pp);
 follow-up to agreement on establishment of Anglo-Irish
Intergovernmental Council, by the DFA and Department of the
Taoiseach ([January 1982], 19pp);
 proposals by Sir Robert Armstrong (4 December 1981, 4pp);
 ‘Current Political Situation in Northern Ireland’ by the DFA
(December 1981, 4pp);
 ‘An Independent Northern Ireland – present Position’ by the
DFA ([January 1982], 3pp);
 discussion document on independence for Northern Ireland by
the DFA (December 1981, 21pp);
 ‘Constitutional Review’ by the Department of the Taoiseach and
the Attorney-General’s Office ([January 1982], 19pp);
 ‘North-South Economic Cooperation’ by the DFA (January
1982, 5pp);
 ‘The United States Dimension’ by the DFA (January 1982,
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analysis by Ambassador Seán Donlon in Washington (18
January 1982, 3pp);
‘The European Dimension’ by the DFA (January 1982, 4pp);
comments on some of the submitted papers by William Kirwan
and F. Murray of the Department of the Taoiseach ([January
1982], 7pp).
November 1981–January 1982
13 items
Supplementary Papers for Northern Ireland Policy Review
Conference
File of material from the Conference, held at Iveagh House in Dublin.
Includes:
 schedule and list of participants for the Conference (18 January
1982, 2pp);
 speaking note for the Chairman (MFA) (18 January, 5pp);
 Attorney-General’s material, consisting of a document
discussing the Irish Government’s failure to recognise that the
majority in the North have the right ‘however… unsound the
foundations of that right’ to refuse reunification, and some
comments on the Department of Justice note on Joint
Interrogation (P270/326) (12 January 1982, 2 items);
 items missing from the bound brief (P270/326), including ‘Mr.
Prior’s Options for Devolved Government’ by the DFA, ‘Possible
Irish Approach to Coordination and Secretariat Arrangements
for the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Council’ by the
Department of the Taoiseach, ‘Non-Governmental Contacts
between North and South’ by the DFA, and ‘Areas for Possible
Decision’ by the Department of the Taoiseach (January 1982, 4
items);
 miscellaneous documents circulated at the Conference and
retained by Dooge, including a note on the United States
judgement that NORAID is an agent of the Provisional IRA, a
joint communiqué issued after the meeting of the Taoiseach
and the Prime Minister in November 1981, a letter from
Marigold Johnson of the British Irish Association to Michael
Lillis, and a note by Michael Lillis on a meeting with Peter
Taylor who is producing a Panorama piece on Northern Ireland
(November 1981–January 1982, 4 items);
 Dooge’s handwritten notes, taken during the Conference (18
January 1982, 13pp).
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P270/328
September–October 1981
2 items
Constitutional Review
Two items relating to the Constitutional Review: a leaflet titled
‘Towards A New Ireland’ which features a black and white
photograph of Garret FitzGerald on the cover and consists of
transcript extracts of an interview of FitzGerald by Gerald Barry on
This Week (RTÉ Radio 1), and a background note on the Review
prepared by the Department of the Taoiseach.
P270/329
November 1981–February 1982
4 items
Meeting between the MFA and Clones traders
Details of a meeting between the MFA and a group representing the
Clones United Traders Society from county Monaghan, led by
Michael Gunn, who wanted to draw the Minister’s attention to the
economic hardship caused to Clones traders by the closure of border
roads. Also included are two maps of the area and an update from
February 1982, which notes that an officer of the British Embassy
was asked to inform his authorities of the inconvenience being
suffered in Clones.
P270/330
January 1982
2 items
Northern Ireland timelines
Timelines of main political events in Northern Ireland and of
significant terrorist incidents in Northern Ireland border areas since
1 January 1981.
P270/331
January 1982
5 items
Notes used in a meeting between the MFA and James Prior
File of notes which are noted as being ‘used with Prior’. These relate
to the topics of cross border economic cooperation, compensation
claims against the British Government with regard to road cratering
by the security forces, and the closure of cross border roads.
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2.2.1 European Council, 1981
P270/332
26–27 November 1981
3pp
Agenda
Agenda for the European Council meeting in London on 26–27
November 1981.
P270/333
November 1981
22pp
Brief Part 1: Official Documentation
Softbound brief prepared by the Department of the Taoiseach and
covering official documentation on the Commission Mandate,
Economic and Social Situation, and European Union.
P270/334
November 1981
16pp
Brief Part 2: Background Notes
Softbound brief prepared by the Department of the Taoiseach and
covering background notes on the Commission Mandate, Economic
and Social Situation, European Union, Enlargement, European
Foundation, and North-South Dialogue.
P270/335
November 1981
30pp
Brief Part 3: Steering/Speaking Notes
Softbound brief prepared by the Department of the Taoiseach and
covering speaking and steering notes on the Commission Mandate,
Economic and Social Situation, European Union, Enlargement,
European Foundation, North-South Dialogue and Greece.
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November 1981
54pp
Brief Part 5: Commission Mandate
Softbound brief prepared by the Department of the Taoiseach and
consisting of combined documents relating to the Commission
Mandate.
P270/337
November 1981
30pp
Brief Part 6: Statistical Annex and other Background Data
Softbound brief prepared by the Department of the Taoiseach and
consisting of documents relating to the European economy,
agriculture, and the Community budget.
P270/338
[28] November 1981
20pp
Minutes of the Council meeting
Minutes of the meetings throughout the two days of the meeting in
London. The recorder is not noted.
P270/339
26–27 November 1981
39pp
Dooge’s notes of Council meeting
Dooge’s handwritten notes, taken throughout the two days of the
meeting.
P270/340
30 November 1981
14pp
Conclusions drawn from the Council meeting
Speaking notes on the topics covered at the meeting, conclusions of
the Euro-Council on Portugal and Spain, European Union, and EastWest Relations, and a list of Irish officials to whom these conclusions
were circulated.
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2 December 1981
14pp
Statement by Garret FitzGerald
Statement made by the Taoiseach in the Dáil on the European
Council meeting of 26–27 November.
P270/342
2 December 1981
37pp
Statement by Charles Haughey
Statement made by the Leader of the Opposition in the Dáil on the
European Council meeting of 26–27 November and its outcomes.
2.2.2 European Cooperation and Neutrality
P270/343
November 1980–July 1981
21 items
Brief on European Political Cooperation
File of material relating to European Political Cooperation prepared
by the DFA for the MFA.
Includes:
 list of contents of the brief ([July] 1981, 1p);
 extract from the report of the Political Committee from London
(16–17 July 1981, 4pp);
 proposals from the Political Committee on the improvement of
Political Cooperation titled ‘Procedures and Machinery’ ([1981],
7pp);
 note on recent moves to develop closer political cooperation (22
June 1981, 7pp);
 extract from a report of a meeting with the delegation of future
British Presidency in Dublin (9 June 1981, 3pp);
 speech by Hans-Dietrich Genscher on political union (9 May
1981, 4pp);
 reports on the Political Committee, in French (5 June 1981,
8pp);
 Presidency papers on political cooperation (May–April 1981, 2
items);
 papers relating to an informal meeting of Foreign Ministers of
Community member states at Venlo in the Netherlands (9–10
May 1981, 4 items);
 extract on the mandate to the Political Committee, from Relevé
de Conclusions from a Ministerial meeting. In French (4
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reports on Political Committees between January and February
of 1981 (January–February 1981, 3 items);
Ireland’s paper on ‘Methods of Political Cooperation’ (20
February 1981, 10pp).
August–September 1981
5 items
European Political Cooperation
File of documents originally stored together in a brown envelope and
marked ‘EPC’ by Dooge.
Includes:
 copy of a paper on the improvement of political cooperation, sent
by D.E. Tatham of the British Embassy in Dublin to Eugene
Banks at the DFA. A cover letter is included (10 August, 12pp);
 letter from the DFA to Eleanor O’Brien at the Department of
Education enclosing an extract from the British report on
political cooperation, and requesting her Department’s opinion
on same (24 August, 3pp);
 letter from B. Ó Miodhacháin at the Department of Education
replying to the DFA’s letter of 24 August (28 August, 1p);
 steering note on the improvement of political cooperation at an
informal meeting of Foreign Ministers of member states at
Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire, England on 5–6 September,
prepared by the DFA (2 September, 10pp);
 handwritten notes by Dooge on the topic of the improvement of
European political cooperation ([August] 1981, 7pp).
P270/345
November–December 1981
4 items
Neutrality
File of material originally stored in a brown envelope and marked
‘Neutrality’ by Dooge.
Includes:
 preliminary views of the Office of the Attorney General on the
Draft European Act of 4 November, 1981, and its possible
Constitutional ramifications for Ireland. Initialled by M.R. and
with a handwritten note to the effect that a more final view
should be considered as a matter of urgency (23 November,
7pp);
 draft intervention for use by the MFA at a meeting of Foreign
Ministers of member states from 16–18 November, in which he
will outline Ireland’s problems with the Genscher-Colombo
proposals for European Union (November, 4pp);
 minute sent from Paddy McKernan to Seán Donlon, DFA, about
a misunderstanding which arose on the part of Chancellor
Schmidt at a recent European Council meeting. This minute is
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sent on to Dermot Nally, Secretary to the Government, by
Donlon, with a recommendation that a message be sent from the
Taoiseach to Chancellor Schmidt via Ambassador Fogarty in
Bonn (2 December, 2 items).
2.3 Ministerial Meetings
P270/346
July 1981–January 1982
6 items
Security Committee meetings
File of material relating to meetings of the Security Committee. These
were originally stored in a manila folder marked ‘Secret’ and titled
‘Security Committee’ (Cabinet Sub-Committee on National Security).
Includes:
 documents relating to the first meeting of the Security
Committee, held on 20 July 1981. The participants mainly
discussed the hunger strike protest march held on Saturday 18
July (20–21 July 1981, 5pp);
 documents relating to the second meeting of the Security
Committee, held on 23 July 1981 in the Taoiseach’s room at
Leinster House. The participants again discussed the protest
march of 18 July (22–24 July 1981, 11pp);
 documents relating to the third meeting of the Security
Committee, held on 27 August 1981 in the Taoiseach’s room at
Leinster House. The participants discussed the continuation of
recruitment in the Permanent Defence Forces, the exemption
from restriction in numbers employed in the public sector, and
the illegal activities of sympathisers of the H-Block hunger strike
protest (18–27 August 1981, 32pp);
 documents relating to the fourth meeting of the Security
Committee, held on 28 August 1981 in the Taoiseach’s room at
Leinster House. The
participants
discussed potential
prosecutions of persons in respect of offences committed during
the demonstration at the British Embassy on 18 July, malicious
damage, obstruction of the highway, and intimidation (28
August 1981, 10pp);
 documents relating to the fifth meeting of the Security
Committee, held on 24 October 1981 in the Taoiseach’s room at
Leinster House. The participants discussed accommodation for
subversive prisoners at Portlaoise and Limerick Prisons, long
term prison policy, the kidnapping of Ben Dunne, and telephone
interceptions (19–29 October 1981, 18pp);
 Government memoranda on extra posts in the Prison Service to
enable subversive prisoners to be detained in Limerick, on the
transfer of subversive prisoners from Portlaoise Prison to
Limerick Prison, and on a decision on action on prison officers
in the event of their disobeying orders regarding the transfer of
some subversive prisoners from Portlaoise to Limerick (11–14
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15 items
MFA’s notes of meetings
File of handwritten notes taken at various meetings by Dooge. All
were stored together in a green folder titled ‘Minister’s own Notes of
Meetings’. Only some of these are dated, notably notes taken at
Brocket Hall at a meeting of Community Foreign Ministers (5–6
September 1981, 5pp), notes on Northern Irish issues (6 September
1981, 4pp), notes used for a statement by the MFA to the Foreign
Affairs Council on the 30 May Mandate (14 September 1981, 10pp),
notes possibly from a European Parliament colloquy in Strasbourg
(18 November 1981, 2pp), Foreign Affairs council meeting (7–8
December 1981, 1p), and Foreign Affairs council meeting (26
January 1982, 2pp). Some other sets note where they were taken but
are not dated, including ‘Meeting of Ministers’ (not dated, 3pp),
‘Thorn Visit’ (not dated, 13pp), notes of a meeting with European
Commissioner Antonio Giolitti (not dated, 3pp), a set of notes titled
‘B. Lenihan’ (not dated, 2pp), and a note taken at a Fine Gael
Backbenchers Committee meeting (not dated, 1p). The remaining five
sets of notes are on topics including improvement in European
political cooperation (not dated, 3pp), agricultural positions of
European Community member states (not dated, 9pp), European
agricultural policies (not dated, 8pp), and European mandate (not
dated, 6pp).
2.4 Other Department of Foreign Affairs Concerns
2.4.1 General Concerns
P270/348
May 1978–February 1982
15 items
Correspondence regarding the appointment of professional
officers as Commissioners in the Office of Public Works
File of correspondence relating to the appointment of professional
officers to the Board of Commissioners in the OPW. The file contains
correspondence both to and from the MFA and his predecessors.
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October 1980
111pp
Delimitation of the continental shelf between Ireland and Britain
A history of the negotiations regarding the delimitation between 1964
and 1980, provided to the MFA for reference purposes and prepared
by the Legal Division of the DFA.
P270/350
January 1981–January 1982
34 items
Developments in Poland since 1 January 1982
A file of material forming a brief for the MFA, including statements on
the situation in Poland, reports on the Community Ambassadors
meeting with General Wojciech Jaruzelski, reports from Irish
missions abroad, reports on Polish refugees and food aid, notes on
the Irish position on Poland, and selected press cuttings of stories on
Poland by Irish publications. Also includes a table of contents, with
each section divided by alphabetical tabbed sheets.
P270/351
February–July 1981
2 items
Submission of the delimitation of the continental shelf between
Ireland and Britain to an ad hoc Arbitration Agreement
Memorandum for the information of the Government on the above
topic, prepared by the DFA (20 February, 10pp) and a letter
acknowledging receipt of the memorandum from Dermot Nally in the
Department of the Taoiseach (24 February, 1p).
P270/352
3–19 July 1981
21pp
MFA’s diary
Softbound, handwritten diary for July 1981. Includes brief details of
meetings during this time period. The remaining pages of the diary
are blank.
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P270/353
9–30 July 1981
7 items
Departmental changes
File of documents relating to personnel changes made by Dooge to
Irish diplomatic missions and in DFA headquarters in Dublin.
Includes notes on same, a report of a letter from Ambassador Fogarty
in Bonn to the MFA regarding his position, and lists of staff, both in
the Ministerial office and in Irish embassies overseas.
P270/354
August–October 1981
7 items
Garret FitzGerald’s statements on the Constitution
File of transcripts and print interviews of the Taoiseach in which he
speaks about the Constitution and specifically, Articles 2 and 3
which refer to the Irish state’s claim on the whole island of Ireland.
The interviews are RTÉ’s Today Tonight with Barry Cowan (14
August, 10pp), WNET’s McNeil/Lehrer Report (20 August, 18pp), the
Cork Examiner (22 September, 6pp), RTÉ Radio 1’s This Week (27
September, 21pp), and Face the Press (1981, 36pp). Also included are
two excerpts in which the Taoiseach mentions the same subject, the
first a contribution to a motion on a Constitutional and legislative
review in Seanad Éireann (9 October, 36pp) and the second in a
parliamentary debate (20 October, 4pp).
P270/355
November 1980–August 1981
17 items
Afghanistan brief
A brief, with list of contents, prepared for the MFA for the informal
meeting of Foreign Ministers at Brocket Hall, England from 5–6
September. The files collected contain information spanning the
previous three years which relates to the ongoing situation in
Afghanistan.
Includes:
 a background note on the present position in the country
prepared by ‘J.M.H.’ (31 August 1981, 7pp);
 a TASS statement containing new proposals on Afghanistan (25
August 1981, 5pp);
 background note on Afghanistan (9 July 1981, 8pp);
 copy of a United States State Department paper on
Afghanistan, with a covering note by Justin Harman of the
DFA, who received the paper from Alan Roy of the United States
Embassy in Dublin (6 August 1981, 9pp);
 the European Council statement on Afghanistan (22 June
1981, 3pp);
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report on Lord Carrington’s talks with Andrei Gromyko (6 July
1981, 3pp);
statement issued after a meeting of the Council of Ministers (13
July 1981, 1p);
text of COREU 2443, Soviet aide-memoire (22 July 1981, 3pp);
Dublin COREU reporting on call by the Soviet Charge d’Affaires
(24 July 1981, 1p);
Pravda article on Afghanistan (5 August 1981, 6pp);
report from the Irish Ambassador in New Delhi on Indian
reaction to the ‘Ten Initiative’ (27–28 July 1981, 3pp);
statement on Afghanistan by United States Assistant Secretary
of State for European Affairs, Lawrence S. Eagleburger (18
August 1981, 3pp);
background brief on further responses to Soviet intervention
(July 1981, 3pp);
note of chronology of events in Afghanistan (July 1981, 4pp);
Press reports of a visit by Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Firyubin to Pakistan (25–26 August 1981, 3pp);
note distributed by the United Kingdom at European Council,
on details for arrangements of a proposed conference (30 June
1981, 4pp);
United Nations General Assembly Resolution on Afghanistan
(26 November 1980, 2pp).
July–September 1981
10 items
Southern Africa brief
Briefs prepared for the MFA for the informal meeting of Foreign
Ministers at Brocket Hall, England from 5–6 September, and for his
meeting with the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement on 10 September.
The documents relate to South Africa and neighbouring countries
such as Angola and Namibia.
Includes:
 background notes on Angola, South Africa and Namibia (2
September, 11pp);
 a West German position paper on Namibia and covering letter
from the Irish Embassy (10–17 July, 2 items);
 telex from London on a visit of an OAU delegation (3 September,
1p);
 telex from Bonn on visit of the OAU delegation (September,
2pp);
 revised draft of Presidency statement for United Nations special
session on Namibia (2 September, 8pp);
 steering note for the MFA in advance of his meeting with the
Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement on 10 September ([September],
4pp);
 notes for the MFA on the Special Committee Against Apartheid,
apartheid in sport, and Ireland’s position on sanctions by the
United Nations Security Council ([September], 8pp);
 comments on the memorandum ‘Irish Policy towards Apartheid
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South Africa’, prepared by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement
(September, 5pp).
October 1981–January 1982
10 items
Proposed mobility scheme for civil servants
File of documents relating to the proposed mobility scheme for civil
servants and to promotions for civil servants.
Includes:
 Government memorandum on promotion to the levels of
Assistant Secretary and Principal in the administrative civil
service (3 November 1981, 40pp);
 list of the numbers of Officers serving in the DFA as of 29
October 1981 and their rank (October 1981, 1p);
 summary of memorandum for the Government on the exclusion
of the foreign service from the scheme proposed by the
Department of the Public Service for promotion to the levels of
Assistant Secretary and Principal Officer (6 November 1981,
10pp);
 note for the MFA on the proposed scheme of mobility (9
November 1981, 3pp);
 letter from L. Rigney to the Secretary in the DFA discussing the
mobility scheme, and attaching a note on the constitutionality
of same, as well as a list of Officers and their grades (15
January 1982, 3 items);
 note on discussions with the Attorney General’s Office on the
legal aspects of the proposed mobility scheme (21 January
1982, 1p);
 two sets of handwritten notes by Dooge on the mobility scheme
([January 1982], 2 items).
P270/358
June 1980–November 1981
22 items
Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) for Sinai
File of documents relating to the formation of and participants in
MFO in the Sinai.
Includes:
 notes on a meeting between the British Ambassador and the
Political Director at which the Sinai MFO was discussed.
Written by P. Gunning (28 October 1981, 4pp)
 statement issued by the United Kingdom Presidency on behalf
of the European Community member states on the occasion of
the announcement by France, Italy, the Netherlands and the
United Kingdom of their decision to participate in the MFO for
Sinai (23 November 1981, 1p);
 steering note for the MFA on the MFO for Sinai ([November
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note on informal soundings at a Middle East Working Group
meeting (23 October 1981, 1p);
background note on the Sinai peace-keeping force (22 October
1981, 2pp);
chronology of events in and outside the framework of the EPC
([October 1981], 1p);
reports of discussions at Ministerial meetings in London and
New York, partly prepared by R.H. O’Toole of the Political
Division of the DFA (September–October 1981, 6pp);
statement on the Middle East by the European Council at the
meeting in Venice (12–13 June 1980, 2pp);
extract from the Luxembourg Report on the Principles of the
Venice Declaration on the Middle East (20 November 1980,
7pp);
background note on the Camp David Agreements (8 October
1981, 6pp);
report from PMUN on the MFO (21 October 1981, 2pp);
media reports on the Sinai force (20–22 October 1981, 6pp);
information from the Irish Ambassadors in Cairo, Canberra and
The Hague concerning the MFO (22–23 October 1981, 7pp).
6–14 October 1981
3 items
Briefings by the Department of the Government
Documents sent to all Ministers by Fergus O’Brien, Minister of State
and by Peter Barry, Minister for the Environment. Barry’s private
secretary forwards notes for Dooge’s information on the assessment
of income for eligibility for SDA loans, the National Road Authority,
and a list of options to deal with land prices (6 October, 17pp).
O’Brien’s material relates to a new home improvement grants scheme
(14 October, 15pp).
P270/360
November 1967–December 1981
24 items
Brief for the visit of Ambassador Shlomo Argov
Brief prepared by the DFA for the MFA ahead of the visit of the Israeli
Ambassador in December 1981. The documents were originally
stored in a plastic folder which has been removed, but the tabbed
dividers for each section have been retained, as has the list of
contents.
Includes:
 a steering note for Dooge for use in preparation for the meeting.
This document is not listed in the contents of the brief (2
December 1981, 4pp);
 background note on Israel (27 November 1981, 6pp);
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background note on the Camp David agreements and a report
from the Irish Ambassador to Egypt on the tripartite
negotiations on Palestinian autonomy in Cairo (13–30
November 1981, 7pp);
the Venice Declaration, a statement on the Middle East by the
European Council meeting (12–13 June 1980, 2pp);
the Bahrain Communiqué, issued at the conclusion of talks in
Bahrain between MFA Brian Lenihan and the Foreign Minister
of Bahrain, Sheikh Muhammed Bin Mubarak Al-Khalifa, and a
statement by Lenihan in the Dáil on same (10–26 February
1980, 6pp);
statement by the United Kingdom Presidency on behalf of the
member states on the Multinational Force and Observers for
Sinai, and a United Kingdom national statement on same (23
November 1981, 4pp);
note on recent events in occupied territories from the Irish
Ambassador in Washington. (1 December 1981, 3pp);
newspaper cuttings on events in the region (17 November–1
December 1981, 2pp);
United Nations Security Council Resolution 487, condemning
an Israeli attack on an Iraqi nuclear reactor (19 June 1981,
2pp);
statement by the Permanent Representative of Ireland to the
United Nations explaining their vote to allow the Palestine
Liberation Organisation to participate in the debate on
Resolution 487 (12 June 1981, 3pp);
United Nations Security Council Resolution 490, calling for
cessation of armed attacks in and from Lebanon (23 July 1981,
3pp);
the Middle East section of the Minister’s speech to United
Nations General Assembly, 36th session (not dated, 3pp);
United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338,
which both relate to conflicts in the Middle East (November
1967–October 1973, 2pp);
background note on the United Nations Interim Force in
Lebanon (1 December 1981, 4pp);
curriculum vitae of Ambassador Argov ([December 1981], 1p);
account of Argov’s previous contacts with Ireland and his
attitude to the Venice Declaration ([December 191], 1p);
an exchange of messages between Ambassador Argov and
former MFA Brian Lenihan (14–15 February 1981, 3pp);
newspaper cuttings discussing the Israeli feeling towards Irish
attitudes (21 April 1980, 4pp);
note on recent bilateral contacts with Israel and the Jewish
community in Ireland (December 1981], 1p);
report from the Irish Ambassador to Greece regarding a meeting
with the Deputy Director General of the Israeli Foreign Office
(29 October 1981, 3pp);
newspaper cutting from the Irish Times which discusses the
fear of the Jewish community in Ireland of anti-Semitism (20
October 1981, 1p);
note on diplomatic relations with Israel and the question of
resident embassies (30 November 1981, 3pp);
note on European Community relations with Israel (24
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note on trade between Ireland and Israel (20 November 1981,
7pp).
November 1981–February 1982
7 items
Interview transcripts
Transcripts from interviews of Dooge while he served as MFA.
Includes:
 interview on the RTÉ News at 6.30 p.m. with David Davin-Power
on the publication of the Joint Studies on Northern Ireland (11
November 1981, 4pp);
 Today Tonight, also featuring Brian Lenihan and Harold
McCusker, hosted by Brian Farrell on the publication of the
Joint Studies on Northern Ireland (11 November 1981, 8pp);
 RTÉ News at 1.30 p.m. with Shane Kenny on Irish neutrality (3
December 1981, 3pp);
 Spotlight, broadcast on BBC Northern Ireland, also featuring
Brian Lenihan and hosted by Brian Walker, on Northern Irish
issues (11 December 1981, 6pp);
 interview with NBC Magazine on NORAID, recorded in Iveagh
House and conducted by Betsy Aaron. The MFA’s interview in
full is included, as well as the full transcript of the show which
only featured heavily edited comments from Dooge (December
1981–February 1982, 57pp);
 Today Tonight with Brian Farrell on possible economic
sanctions against the Soviet Union (4 January 1982, 5pp).
P270/362
December 1981–January 1982
73pp
National Prices Commission Monthly Report, number 112
Softbound copy of the report, with a cover letter from D. Culligan,
Chairman of the National Prices Commission, to Minister of Trade
Commerce and Tourism John Kelly.
P270/363
October–December 1981
5 items
‘Constitutional Crusade’
File of material which was stored together in a manila envelope and
labelled ‘Constitutional Crusade’. The documents refer to Garret
FitzGerald’s efforts to lead a ‘crusade’ to de-theocratise the Republic
of Ireland and make it acceptable to Northern Protestants as a state
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in which to live. The documents include a press cutting from the New
Statesman by Mary Holland, short account of a meeting between
Michael Lillis of the Department of the Taoiseach and John Hume,
transcript of a speech by Desmond O’Malley on constitutional
change, and text for a speech on the Irish Constitution.
P270/364
1981
51pp
Programme for Government 1981–1986
Copy of the Coalition’s outline for the term of their Government.
P270/365
December 1981–January 1982
3 items
Demands on Local Authority finances
Memorandum for the Government discussing the demands on Local
Authority finances, circulated by the Minister for the Environment.
P270/366
18–19 January 1982
10pp
Proposal of Údarás na Gaeltachta to clear the liabilities of
Innealtóireacht Chúil Aodha Teo
Report relating to the closing down of Innealtóireacht Chúil Aodha
Teo, a subsidiary of Údarás na Gaeltachta which is closing down with
substantial debts.
P270/367
20–21 January 1982
18pp
Proposed amendment of the Trade Union Acts, 1871–1975
Memorandum for the Government on the proposed amendment,
circulated by the Minister for Labour.
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January–February 1982
11pp
Housing Finance Agency
Report on the current position of the Agency.
P270/369
27 January 1982
13pp
Decentralisation of Government Offices
Memorandum for the Government discussing proposals for the
implementation of decentralization to offices in Ballina, Cavan and
Galway.
P270/370
[February] 1982
18pp
Age of enrolment to primary schools
Briefing document circulated by the Minister for Education.
P270/371
November 1981–February 1982
10 items
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe Group
File of documents relating to the Conference meeting in Madrid on 9
February 1982. The file consist of reports of previous meetings of the
Group between November 1981 and January 1982, a telex from the
Irish Ambassador to Germany to the DFA regarding the meeting in
February, a letter from Hans-Dietrich Genscher (West German
Minister for Foreign Affairs) to Leo Tindemans on the upcoming
meeting in Madrid, and DFA documents prepared ahead of the
meeting.
P270/372
February 1982
31pp
Micro computer equipment in schools
Information on the provision of computer equipment to schools
(primary, secondary and vocational), circulated by the Minister for
Education John Boland.
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16 February 1982
12pp
Second Anglo-Irish Policy Review Conference
A report of the Conference, which was held in January 1982,
circulated by Margaret Hennessy of the DFA.
P270/374
17 February 1982
2 items
South Lebanon
A DFA report on the situation in South Lebanon and note on UNIFIL
(United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon).
P270/375
19 February 1982
10pp
Extra-statutory redundancy payments from State funds
Memorandum for the Government, circulated by the Oifig Aire na
Gaeltachta.
P270/376
January–February 1982
13 items
Poland
File of documents which relate to the situation in Poland.
Includes:
 steering note for a meeting of the Political Committee to be held
on 18–19 January (January, 4pp);
 report on the meeting of the Political Committee which was held
on 18–19 January ([19] January, 3pp);
 report from the Irish Ambassador in Moscow on the Soviet
Union and martial law in Poland (19 January, 6pp);
 telex from the Irish Ambassador to Moscow to the DFA, relating
a meeting of the European member states ambassadors at
which the Polish situation was discussed (22 January, 3pp);
 steering note on Poland, prepared for the MFA for use during a
meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers to be held on 25–26
January (January, 6pp);
 suggested speaking points for the Council meeting on punitive
steps against Poland and the USSR (January, 2pp);
 steering note for the Council meeting on food aid for Poland
(21–22 January, 7pp);
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prepared for the Council meeting (22 January, 7pp);
notes of an informal meeting of Foreign Ministers over lunch at
which Poland was discussed. Written by A. Anderson (25
January, 2pp);
account of a discussion at an informal Ministerial meeting (28
January, 3pp);
summary note by Anderson on the Ministerial meeting (28
January, 1p);
note by A.E. Mannix for the MFA regarding an approach from
the Polish Vice-Minister, who wishes to speak to the MFA (15
February, 1p);
a photocopy of an article from Zygcie Warszawy which was sent
to Mannix by Art Agnew, along with a translation (23 February,
3pp).
January–February 1982
3 items
Decontrol of rents and a scheme for subsidisation of tenants
File consisting of three sets of Government memoranda on the
decontrol of rents and subsidisation issue.
P270/378
25 February 1982
10pp
Public expenditure in 1982
Memorandum for the Government on the approval for maintenance
within determined cost limits.
P270/379
December 1980–March 1982
13 items
El Salvador
A file of material briefing Dooge on events in El Salvador, consisting
of information on United Nations General Assembly Resolutions on
the situation in El Salvador, a statement on United States policy in
the region by Thomas Enders, Archbishop James Hickey’s testimony
to the United States Congress on its policy towards El Salvador, note
on trade in El Salvador by the Golden Vale Co-op of county Cork,
note on Irish policy on the country, note on all-Party delegation to El
Salvador sponsored by Trocaire, a report on recent events in Central
America forwarded to the DFA by Declan O’Donovan of the Irish
mission to the United Nations, and general background information
on the country and region.
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July 1979–March 1982
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Irish College, Paris
A file of correspondence primarily, between the DFA and the Irish
Embassy in Paris, and notes relating to the Irish College and its use
for Irish cultural activities as well as planning for its development as
an Irish cultural centre in Paris.
P270/381
2 March 1982
4pp
Veterinary inspection fees at meat factories
Memoranda for the Government on the proposal to increase
veterinary inspection fees at meat factories, circulated by the
Minister for Agriculture.
P270/382
2 March 1982
15pp
Pigs and Bacon Commission
Memoranda for the Government on the proposal to take on the
liabilities of the Commission, circulated by the Minister for
Agriculture.
P270/383
4 March 1982
3pp
National Prices Commission monthly report
Memorandum for the Government on the Commission’s report for
December 1981, circulated by the Minister for Trade, Commerce and
Tourism.
P270/384
March 1982
7pp
Interim report for 31 March 1982
A draft outline for the MFA’s interim report for March 1982, and
several pages of a draft report format.
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2.4.2 Communications with Ambassadors
P270/385
25 February 1982
4pp
Letter from the Irish Embassy in Athens
Letter from Seán [Ronan], Irish Ambassador to Greece outlining the
activities of the Athens to the MFA.
P270/386
15 February 1982
12pp
Letter from the Irish Embassy in Beijing
Letter from the Irish Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China
outlining the activities of the Embassy to the MFA.
P270/387
December 1980–February 1982
2 items
Letters from the Irish Embassy in Beirut
Letter from Gearóid Ó Clérigh, Irish Ambassador to Lebanon
outlining the activities of the Embassy to the MFA, and an earlier
letter discussing a proposal for an institute of non-Western studies.
P270/388
1 March 1982
21pp
Letter from the Irish Embassy in Berne
Letter from the Irish Ambassador to Switzerland outlining the
activities of the Embassy to the MFA.
P270/389
5 March 1982
4pp
Letter from the Irish Embassy in Bonn
Letter from [S] Fogarty, Irish Ambassador to West Germany outlining
the activities of the Embassy to the MFA.
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12 February 1982
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Letter from the Irish Consulate in Boston
Letter from Carmel B. Heaney, Irish Consul General in Boston
outlining the activities of the Consulate to the MFA.
P270/391
23 February 982
3pp
Letter from the Irish Embassy in Brussels
Letter from the Irish Ambassador to Belgium outlining the activities
of the Embassy to the MFA.
P270/392
17 February 1982
8pp
Telex from the Irish Embassy in Buenos Aires
Message from the Irish Ambassador to Argentina outlining the
activities of the Embassy to the MFA.
P270/393
February 1982
4pp
Letter from the Irish Embassy in Cairo
Letter from the Irish Ambassador to Egypt outlining the activities of
the Embassy to the MFA.
P270/394
1 March 1982
4pp
Telex from the Irish Embassy in Canberra
Message from the Irish Ambassador to Australia outlining the
activities of the Embassy to the MFA.
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12 February 1982
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Letter from the Irish Consulate in Chicago
Letter from Liam Coniffe, Irish Consul General in Chicago outlining
the activities of the Consulate to the MFA.
P270/396
February 1982
8pp
Letter from the Irish Embassy in Copenhagen
Letter from the Irish Ambassador to Denmark outlining the activities
of the Embassy to the MFA.
P270/397
25 February 1982
5pp
Letter from the Irish Embassy in The Hague
Letter from the Irish Ambassador to the Netherlands outlining the
activities of the Embassy to the MFA.
P270/398
15 February 1982
5pp
Letter from the Irish Embassy in Rome
Letter from [F] Coffey, Irish Ambassador to Italy outlining the reasons
for the existence of a resident Embassy accredited to the Holy See.
P270/399
18 February 1982
11pp
Letter from the Irish Embassy in Lagos
Letter from Aidan Mulloy, Irish Ambassador to Nigeria outlining the
activities of the Embassy to the MFA.
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11 February 1982
11pp
Letter from the Irish Embassy in Lisbon
Letter from the Irish Ambassador to Portugal outlining the activities
of the Embassy to the MFA.
P270/401
[February] 1982
19pp
Report from the Irish Embassy in Madrid
Report from the Irish Embassy in Spain outlining the activities of the
Embassy to the MFA.
P270/402
12 February 1982
15pp
Letter from the Irish Embassy in Nairobi
Letter from Assistant Principal Officer Greene at the Irish Embassy in
Kenya, outlining the activities of the Embassy to the MFA.
P270/403
3 March 1982
3pp
Letter from the Irish Embassy in New Delhi
Letter from McHugh at the Embassy in India, outlining the activities
of the Embassy to the MFA.
P270/404
[December] 1981–February 1982
2 items
Letter from the Irish Consulate in San Francisco
Letter from Thelma M. Doran, Consul General in San Francisco,
referring the MFA to a previous report which outlined the activities of
the Consul, and which is also included in this file.
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16 February 1982
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Letter from the Irish Embassy in Stockholm
Letter from Assistant Principal Officer [Weldun] at the Embassy in
Sweden, outlining the activities of the Embassy to the MFA.
P270/406
23 February 1982
11pp
Report from the Irish Embassy in Tokyo
Report from the Irish Embassy in Japan outlining the activities of the
Embassy to the MFA.
P270/407
12 February 1982
10pp
Letter from the Irish Embassy in Vienna
Letter from Edward J. Brennan, Irish Ambassador to Sweden,
outlining the activities of the Embassy to the MFA.
P270/408
[December] 1981–February 1982
2 items
Letter from the Irish Embassy in Washington
Letter from the Irish Ambassador to the United States of America,
outlining the activities of the Embassy to the MFA and enclosing a
report for same in 1981.
P270/409
May 1984
78pp
Diplomatic List
Directory of embassies located in Ireland and, where appropriate, in
the United Kingdom, with personnel details. This directory was
originally placed in a blue plastic folder with a metal ring binder.
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P270/410
December 1981
3 items
Bilateral Aid Programme
A report on the proposed Bilateral Aid Programme expenditure for
1982, two pages of Dooge’s handwritten notes on a vote for
international cooperation on aid, and a status report on the Bilateral
Aid Programme for 1981.
P270/411
1–8 December 1981
3 items
Commercial benefits from Irish development aid
Two reports from the Development Cooperation Division on the spinoff benefits of Irish aid overseas, using examples such as Aer
Lingus’s business in Zambia. Also includes a note on possible
reductions in 1982 Bilateral Aid. These documents were originally
stored in a green folder and labelled ‘Irish Aid Commercial Spin-Off 1
December 1981’.
P270/412
20 August 1981
2 items
Delegation of the Commission of the European Communities
Letter from T.C. O’Sullivan, a delegate to the Delegation, to the MFA
enclosing a report reviewing the economy of Jordan, the existing
agreement between the Commission and Jordan, and indicating
areas where assistance could be granted in the future.
P270/413
3–24 December 1981
4 items
Correspondence between Dr John Kelly, Paud Murphy and MFA
Letter to the MFA from Kelly and Murphy thanking him for his
support in the Higher Education for Development Cooperation’s
successful application for a project to cooperate with the Faculty of
Engineering and Technology in the University of Jordan. A short note
on the project and the MFA’s response are also included.
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P270/414
1981
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First Committee: Disarmament and International Security
File of extracts containing Irish submissions made at the First
Committee of the United Nations General Assembly 36, including a
statement by Irish delegate Noel Dorr.
P270/415
September–December 1981
9 items
Third Committee: Social, Humanitarian and Cultural
File of extracts containing Irish submissions made at the Third
Committee of the United Nations General Assembly 36, including
statements made by the Chairman, Declan O’Donovan, and by Irish
delegate Paula Slattery.
P270/416
9 November 1981
2pp
Fourth Committee: Special Political and Decolonization
Statement explaining Ireland’s vote on Foreign Economic and Other
Interests (L. 4), by Irish delegate Eugene Hutchinson.
P270/417
11 December
2pp
Fifth Committee: Administrative and Budgetary
Statement discussing Ireland’s co-sponsorship of the draft resolution
on the financing of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon by
Irish delegate P. Conway.
P270/418
24 November 1981
4pp
Sixth Committee: Legal
Statement on the review of the Multilateral Treaty-making Process by
Irish delegate Emer Kilcullen.
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19 May 1980
11pp
United Nations Human Rights International Instruments
Note for the MFA on Ireland’s non-ratification of certain of the
International Instruments.
P270/420
June 1981–February 1982
7 items
United Nations Security Council
File of statements made by Irish Ambassador to the United Nations
Noel Dorr at the Security Council on international security issues.
P270/421
October 1981–January 1982
16 items
Election of United Nations Secretary General
File of correspondence between the DFA and the Irish Permanent
Representation at the United Nations in New York regarding the
election of a new Secretary General of the United Nations. Includes
an analysis of the situation by Ambassador Noel Dorr (6 November
1981, 13pp).
P270/422
October–November 1981
2 items
Special Political Committee
Statements by Irish delegate Jeremy Craig on information questions
and on peace-keeping operations.
P270/423
1–16 December 1981
5 items
Plenary
Irish statements in Plenary by Ambassador Noel Dorr, on topics
including apartheid, the granting of independence to colonial
countries and peoples, Namibia, and the human rights case of Ziad
Abu Eain.
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June–November 1981
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Congratulatory letters
File of letters congratulating Dooge on his appointment as MFA, and
his responses to same, which are mostly standard.
Correspondents include:
 M.J. (Mattie) McDermott, Clontarf, Dublin 3 (24 October–19
November, 2pp);
 Professor G.K. Skryabin, USSR Academy of Science, Moscow
(16 October–13 November);
 Calum McLoughlin, Glenageary, county Dublin. His name is
misspelled ‘Colum’ in Dooge’s reply (13 November, 3pp);
 Tony Brown, International Secretary of the Labour Party (3–13
November, 2pp);
 Tim O’Brien, Mount Merrion, county Dublin (22 October–11
November, 2pp);
 Kevin I. Nowlan, Barrister-at-Law ([26] October–11 November,
2pp);
 M.E.J. (Eddie) O’Kelly, Dean of Engineering at University
College Galway (23 October–11 November, 2pp);
 Peter Kelly, Herbert Park, Dublin 4 (27 October–11 November,
2pp);
 Dermot McDermott, Knappagh Road, Sligo (28 October–11
November, 2pp);
 Patrick J. Tobin, Managing Director of Patrick J. Tobin and
Company (Consulting, Civil and Structural Engineers), Galway
(22 October–11 November, 2pp);
 John Bourke, 22 Fortfield Park, Dublin 6 (21 October–11
November, 2pp);
 Kevin Stanley, Foxrock Park, Dublin 18 (26 October–11
November, 2pp);
 Gordon Lambert, Chairman of Jacob and Company, Tallaght,
county Dublin (6 October–11 November, 2pp);
 Michael O’Callaghan, Department of Mathematical Physics,
University College Cork (22 October–11 November, 2pp);
 Jim Gallagher, Kildare County Councillor (22 October–11
November, 2pp);
 Father Eiric Mac Fhionn, Carraroe, county Galway. This letter
is in Irish, as is Dooge’s response (1 July–October, 4pp);
 Turloch Ó Raifeartaigh, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. IN Irish, as is
Dooge’s response (16 July–8 October, 2pp);
 Frank Ford, Professor of Romance Languages at University
College Galway. No response included (1 November, 1p);
 A.C. Cunningham, Professor of Marketing at University College
Dublin. No response included (3 November, 1p);
 Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs. No
response included (October, 2pp);
 Tom Higgins, Mayo Identity Card Scheme (29–30 October, 2pp);
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University College Dublin (23–27 November, 2pp);
Otto Graf Lambsdorff, West German Minister for Economics. No
response included (4 November, 1p);
Brother S. Ó Laoi (Lee), Ard Muire, county Cork, who requests
no reply (29 October, 2pp);
Della Laura, Chief at the Office of International Hydrology at the
United States Department of the Interior (10 November–4
December, 2pp);
Fergus O’Ferrall, President of the National Youth Council of
Ireland. No response included (29 October, 1p);
Ilter Turkmen, Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs. No response
included (30 October, 2pp);
Jacqueline Tolkien, Dublin Women’s Campaign for Soviet Jewry
35’s (4 November, 2pp);
Professor Augusto Ghetti, Centro Internazionale di Idrologia in
Padua (2 October–November, 2pp);
Francis Brennan, Secretary of the Swinford branch of Fine Gael
in county Mayo (6–16 November, 2pp);
Carmel McDonnell, Tullow Road, Carlow (22 October–
November, 2pp);
Professor Mehmetcik Bayazit, Technical University, Istanbul,
Turkey (4–23 November, 3pp);
Eoin P. O’Brien of the Phoenix Cricket Club, Dublin 8 (24
September–20 October, 3pp);
telegram from the International Association of Hydrological
Sciences. No response included (1 July, 2pp);
telegram from Dr J.R. Philip. No response included (2 July,
2pp);
telegram from C. Hughes-Stanton. No response included (2
July, 2pp);
telegram from John Kendrew. No response included (3 July,
2pp);
telegram from Tom Field. No response included (6 July, 1p);
Maurice O’Leary, Billericay, Essex. No response included (31
July, 2pp);
Neil Brennan, Howth, county Dublin. No response included (20
August, 1p);
Arnold Ivan Johnson, President of the International Committee
on Remote Sensing and Data Transmission (24 August–26
September, 2pp);
Professor M.H. Diskin of the Israel Institute of Technology (12
July–26 September, 2pp);
Peter S. Thatcher, Deputy Executive Director of the United
Nations Environment Programme (10 July–26 September, 2pp);
Ciaran, 1 Farmhill House, Roebuck, Dublin 14. No response
included (1981, 2pp);
Patrick Raftery, Dartry, Dublin 6. No response included (13
September, 2pp);
Michael Sexton, Centre d’Études Nucléaires de Grenoble. No
response included (27 July, 1p);
David Spearman, European Organization for Nuclear Research.
No response included (1 July, 1p);
Anthony Hitchcock, Transport and Road Research Laboratory.
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No response included (7 July, 1p);
Brenda [Herley], St. Croix, the U.S. Virgin Islands. No response
included (17 July, 2pp);
A[fre] Col[en]branders, Switzerland. No response included (10
August, 2pp);
John, Donal, and Arthur Hutchinson, Portarlington. No
response included (1981, 4pp);
[Fiona] Purcell, Kerry. No response included (18 November,
2pp);
‘Uncle’ Stan, Waterford (1 July, 2pp);
Gráinne and Paddy O’Flynn, Development Education Project (2
July, 2pp);
P.F. Fottrell, Professor of Biochemistry at University College
Galway (6–31 July, 2pp);
Professor Maurice Kennedy, Registrar at University College
Dublin (6–31 July, 3pp);
Professor Olgierd (Olek) Zienkiewicz, Mumbles, Swansea (19–31
July, 2pp);
Professor J.B. (Brendan) Coakley, Department of Anatomy,
University College Dublin (1–31 July, 2pp);
Seán Tobin, Department of Mathematics, University College
Dublin (10–31 July, 2pp);
Dr Peter O’Connor, Department of Civil Engineering, University
College Dublin (31 July, 2pp);
Eddie Toner, Blackberry House, Delgany, county Wicklow (1–31
July, 2pp);
Professor Conor Ward, Department of Social Science, University
College Dublin (2–31 July, 2pp);
Eoin Ó Cionnaithe, J.A. Kenny and Partners, Consulting
Engineers, Dublin 2 (1–31 July, 2pp);
David and Anngret Simms, Killybegs, county Donegal (18–31
July, 2pp);
Dr Dermott Tierney, County Engineer, Laois County Council
(28–31 July, 2pp);
Paddy Hayes, Chairman and Managing Director of Henry Ford
and Son, county Cork (10–31 July, 2pp);
David Barry, Cranleigh, Surrey (23–31 July, 2pp);
Joe Farrell, Office of Public Works, Dublin2 (1–31 July, 2pp);
Neil J. Connell, Blackrock Road, county Cork (14–31 July, 3pp);
Jack J. Jones, Managing Director of Market Research Bureau of
Ireland, Dublin 2 (1–31 July, 2pp);
Professor Fergus J. O’Rourke, Rushbrooke, county Cork (1–31
July, 2pp);
John Bracken, Department of Zoology, University College
Dublin (1–31 July, 2pp);
Bernard Nolan, Shell House, Dublin 2 (8–31 July, 2pp);
Michael Brennan, Electrical Electronic Telecommunications
and Plumbing Union, Dublin 7 (7–31 July, 2pp);
Seamus Ó Dolan, Office of the Chairman of Seanad Éireann, (5–
31 July, 2pp);
telegram from Patrick J. O’Driscoll, Whitechurch, county Cork
(3–31 July, 2pp);
greeting card from Commandant Martin Bates, Malahide Road,
Dublin 3 (31 July, 4pp);
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greeting card from Sheila Coakley, Administration Building,
University College Dublin. The card incorporates a postcard
which displays a photographic image of the Belfield campus (7–
31 July, 4pp);
Professor Sean de Courcey, Cullenswood Gardens, Dublin 6 (1–
31 July, 2pp);
Olga Koenigs, Billton Road, Dublin 6 (2–31 July, 3pp);
Professor Patrick Meehan, Donnybrook, Dublin 4 (5–31 July,
2pp);
Eve and Jack Philbin, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 (5–31 July, 2pp);
greeting card from Máire O’Sullivan, Engineering School,
University College Dublin (31 July, 3pp);
telegram from Declan and Angela O’Keeffe, Threadneedle Road,
Galway (1–31 July, 2pp);
Paddy Masterson, University College Dublin (1-31 July, 2pp);
Brian Walsh, Supreme Court, Dublin 7 (6–31 July, 3pp);
Don Ivers, Dun Laoghaire, county Dublin (1–31 July, 2pp);
Dr Ron Cox, School of Engineering, Trinity College Dublin (1–31
July, 2pp):
Ray Bates, World Climate Programme Office, Geneva,
Switzerland (4–31 July, 2pp);
Tom O’Higgins, Supreme Court, Dublin 7 (8–31 July, 2pp);
Amory Pakenham-Walsh, Trinity College Dublin (3–31 July,
2pp);
Gay McCarthy, Stillorgan, county Dublin (6–31 July, 2pp);
John Finlayson Fleetwood, Blackrock, county Dublin (1–31
July, 2pp);
Joan Waters, Southern Health Board, Douglas Road, county
Cork (4–31 July, 2pp);
Dick Haslam, Raheen Heights, Limerick (11–31 July, 2pp);
Dr John Carroll, Sandyford, county Dublin (3–31 July, 3pp);
Professor Joe Haughton, Sandyford, county Dublin (4–31 July,
2pp);
James J. Ivers, Director General of the Law Society, Blackhall
Place, Dublin 7 (1–31 July, 2pp);
Jim Dorgan, Navan, county Meath (2–31 July, 2pp);
Michael F. McMahon, Public Relations Manager at Benson and
Hedges, Tallaght, county Dublin (6–31 July, 2pp)
Roy Donovan, Chairman of Lisney and Son, Dublin 2 (1–31
July, 2pp);
J.P. McHale, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 (3–31 July, 2pp);
Tony Brown, Raheny, Dublin 5 (4–31 July, 2pp);
Willie Coonan, Kilcock, county Kildare (10–31 July, 3pp);
Professor F.G. (Gordon) Foster, Dean of the Faculty of
Engineering and Systems Sciences, Trinity College Dublin (6–31
July, 2pp);
Tom Hardiman, Chairman of the National Board for Science
and Technology, Dublin 4 (3–31 July, 2pp);
James Gallagher, Foxrock, Dublin 18 (7–31 July, 2pp);
Seamus Scally, Clonliffe Road, Dublin 3 (4–31 July, 2pp);
G.S. Malcolm, manager of Bank of Ireland, South Mall, Cork (1–
31 July, 2pp);
Michael McCormac, Nutley Road, Dublin 4 (5–31 July, 2pp);
Seamus McGrath, Monkstown, county Dublin (1–31 July, 2pp);
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Clare O’Reilly, Administration Building, University College
Dublin (1–31 July, 3pp);
Professor David A. Brown, Department of Chemistry, University
College Dublin (1–31 July, 2pp);
William and Betty Carey, Enfield, county Meath (1–31 July,
2pp);
Professor G.F. (Frank) Mitchell, Drogheda, county Louth (5–31
July, 2pp);
Jim Keogh, An Bord Altranais (10–31 July, 2pp);
Major George Underwood, Blackrock, county Dublin (3–31 July,
2pp);
Rodney Devitt, Wicklow Street, Dublin 2 (1–31 July, 2pp);
Pierce Ryan, An Foras Talúntas (1–31 July, 2pp);
Dr D.S. (Doug) McLernon, Department of Economics, Trinity
College Dublin (31 July, 2pp);
telegram from Paddy Kenny, An Foras Forbartha (1–31 July,
2pp);
telegram from Charles and Mary Maguire, Bishopstown, Cork
(1–31 July, 2pp);
Patrick J. Rock, Chairman of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre,
Newbliss, county Monaghan (1–31 July, 2pp);
Neville and Anne Keery, Monkstown, county Dublin (30 June–
31 July, 2pp);
Michael Geogheghan, Greystones, county Wicklow (30 June–31
July, 2pp);
Tom Murphy, Dun Laoghaire, county Dublin (1–31 July, 2pp);
Richard Dennis, Park Avenue, Dublin 4 (30 June–31 July, 2pp);
Tom Walsh, Director of An Chomhairle Oiliúna Talmhaíochta
(1–31 July, 2pp);
Patrick Shaffrey, Dun Laoghaire, county Dublin (2–31 July,
2pp);
Councillor Philip Gillick, Blackrock, county Dublin (22–31 July,
2pp);
Pat Broy, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (14–31 July, 2pp);
Kadar Asmal, Trinity College Dublin (30 June–28 July, 2pp);
Chris O’Malley, Booterstown, county Dublin (10–31 July, 2pp);
Christopher G. Cooney, Dalkey, county Dublin (8–31 July, 2pp);
Reverend Enda McDonagh, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth,
county Kildare (30 June–31 July, 2pp);
Gerard and Maureen Ahern, Corballey, Limerick (7–31 July,
2pp);
P.F. (Finbar) Callanan, Motown, county Dublin (1–28 July,
2pp);
Dr Peter W. France, Department of Engineering and Building
Technology, University of Wales Institute of Science and
Technology (3–28 July, 2pp);
Dáithí P. Hanly, Vico Road, Dalkey, county Dublin (1–28 July,
2pp);
F.J. (Fergus) O’Gorman, Westland Row, Dublin 2 (1–28 July,
2pp);
Professor George Eogan, Rathgar, Dublin 6 (1–28 July, 2pp);
Professor Paddy Lynch, Marlborough Road, Dublin 4 (1–28
July, 2pp);
Profess Brendan Scaife, Booterstown, county Dublin (4–28 July,
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2pp);
Kieran Derham, Booterstown, county Dublin (1–28 July, 2pp);
Dr Caroline Hussey, Department of Industrial Microbiology,
University College Dublin (3–28 July, 2pp);
Professor Frank Hegarty, Department of Chemistry, University
College Dublin (2–27 July, 2pp);
Edmond A. Kenny, Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2 (227 July,
2pp);
Dr Art Cosgrove, Department of Medieval History, University
College Dublin (1–27 July, 2pp);
Dr Julian Hart, Statistics Department, Trinity College Dublin
(8–27 July, 2pp);
Clara Clarke, Council for the Status of Women, Merrion Square,
Dublin 2 (16–28 July, 2pp);
Mary Ena Walsh, Irish Federation of University Women (6–28
July, 2pp);
Brian Garvey, Athlone, county Westmeath (5–28 July, 2pp);
Eugene O’Curry, Irish Council of the European Movement (14–
28 July, 2pp);
John Colgan, Leixlip, county Kildare (13–27 July, 3pp);
Michael N. Conlon, Douglas, Cork (10–27 July, 2pp);
Ristéard Ó Colmain, Mount Anville Lawn, Dublin 14 (6–27 July,
3pp);
Professor Sean Mackey, Hong Kong (4–27 July, 2pp);
D.M.A. (Austin) Bourke, Ballymun Road, Dublin 9 (15–27 July,
3pp);
Anthony Murphy, Northumberland Road, Dublin 4 (10–27 July,
2pp);
James Barton, Blackrock, county Dublin (13–27 July, 2pp);
J.A. (Jack) Agnew, Upper Baggot Street, Dublin 4 (15–27 July,
2pp);
Ann McCarthy, Ranelagh, Dublin 6 (3–27 July, 2pp);
John Scannell, Blackrock, county Dublin (3–27 July, 2pp);
Joe Fahy, European parliament, Molesworth Street, Dublin 2
(3–27 July, 2pp);
Professor Frank Fahy, Bishopstown, Cork (30 June–13 August,
2pp);
Seán Merry, Ennis, county Clare (12 August, 2pp).
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2.6 Ministerial Speeches
P270/425
18 September 1981
5pp
Opening of the Higher Education for Development Cooperation
(HEDCO) Seminar
Address by the MFA at the opening of the seminar on the response of
Irish institutions if third level education to the needs of developing
countries in Maynooth, county Kildare. Issued by Government
Information Services.
P270/426
30 September 1981
24pp
United Nations General Assembly, 36th Session
General debate statement by the MFA in New York. Press release
from the Permanent Mission of Ireland to the United Nations. There
is a note on the speech which reads ‘Minister’s Speaking Copy’.
P270/427
1 October 1981
6pp
Editors and representatives of the Irish-American media
Address by the MFA at the St Regis Hotel in New York. Issued by the
Government Information Services.
P270/428
12 October 1981
2pp
Statement reacting to a statement by Brian Lenihan, T.D.
Comments by the MFA on a recent statement by Lenihan on a
possible defence dimension to European political cooperation.
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22 October 1981
5pp
Opening of the I.E.I. Conference on Development and
Employment
The MFA’s speech at the Conference in Dundalk. Issued by the
Government Information Services.
P270/430
24 October 1981
11pp
Young European Federalists Seminar
Opening remarks by the MFA at the seminar on the theme ‘European
Integration: A Path to Peace in Europe?’. Issued by the Government
Information Services.
P270/431
30 November 1981
10pp
Annual General Meeting of the Fine Gael Constituency Executive
for Longford-Westmeath
Copy of the MFA’s speech.
P270/432
30 November 1981
2 items
Official opening of the Irish Film Theatre’s Fourth Winter
Festival
Two copies of the MFA’s speech from this event, one handwritten by
Dooge, and the other a typescript copy of the finalized speech.
P270/433
9 February 1982
11pp
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Statement by the MFA to the Conference’s review meeting in Madrid.
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12 February 1982
11pp
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
A second statement by the MFA to the Conference’s review meeting in
Madrid.
P270/435
5 March 1982
3pp
Annual dinner of the Association of Consulting Engineers
Summary report of a speech made by the MFA at the dinner, held at
Jury’s Hotel in Dublin.
P270/436
[1982]
3pp
Japanese Economic Mission
Speech made in Dublin by Dooge to the Japanese Ambassador to
Ireland and a Japanese Economic Mission to Ireland, led by Mr
Matsuo.
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3.1 General Party matters
P270/437
[1977]
11pp
‘The “14-Point Programme” of 1973 – Performance’
A report outlining the aims of the programme instituted by the
National Coalition in 1973, and how the Government performed on
each of these aims.
P270/438
[1977]
4pp
Commission on the Status of Women
List of recommendations made by the Commission regarding women
and social welfare in Ireland. Each recommendation is accompanied
by a note detailing whether or not action was taken by the
Government.
P270/439
[1977]
12pp
‘Social Welfare: Developments Since March 1973’
A report by an unknown author on the developments in the welfare
area during the Government of the National Coalition.
P270/440
1977
42pp
‘The National-Local Link: The Irish Deputy Councillor
An article written about Joseph F. Zimmerman, Professor of Political
Science at the State University of New York, Albany.
P270/441
September–October 1977
24pp
‘The Role of Fine Gael’
A pamphlet containing two speeches by Garret FitzGerald, the first
on the role of Fine Gael (19 September, 14pp) and the second on
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Northern Ireland (27 September and 12 October, 8pp).
P270/442
31 August 1982
12pp
Report on the provision of employment
A report on economic employment and social employment. Ivan
Yates’ name is noted on the first page of the report; as the author is
not noted elsewhere he may be so.
P270/443
6 October 1982
3pp
Education: Suggested Priorities
A document created by Michael Noonan, T.D., and spokesman on
education which discusses priorities for Fine Gael with regard to
primary schools, post-primary schools, and third level education.
P270/444
16 October 1982
39pp
Fine Gael Ard Fheis 1982
Address by Garret FitzGerald to the Ard Fheis.
P270/445
Not dated
64pp
‘Towards a National Renewal’
A Fine Gael document outlining the principles of the party, the
present situation in Ireland, enterprise and economic activity in
Ireland, reform of institutions, and social justice.
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P270/446
December 1971
76pp
‘Strengthening the Local Government Service’
A published report prepared for the Minister for Local Government,
Robert Molloy, by McKinsey and Company, Management
Consultants.
P270/447
[1977]
3 items
National Development Corporation
File of policy documents created ahead of the 1977 general election.
These detail the proposed establishment of three new bodies: a
National Development Corporation, a National Manpower Authority,
and a state-aided investment trust or development bank.
P270/448
April 1978
9pp
Policy for the environment
Draft policy comprising general principles,
implementation, and political action to be taken.
P270/449
proposals
and
15 February 1979
48pp
‘Ireland – Our Future Together’
A printed and bound policy booklet on Northern Ireland.
P270/450
31 March 1979
4pp
Discussion paper on workplace democracy
Summary of the discussion paper, which was submitted for approval
to the Ard Fheis.
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P270/451
31 March 1979
11pp
‘Urban Affairs Interim Policy’
Printed and bound booklet outlining the interim policy, as approved
by the Ard Fheis.
P270/452
June 1979
21pp
‘Local Councils – Working With The People’
Printed and bound booklet detailing Fine Gael’s local government
policy. Created ahead of the local elections.
P270/453
January 1980
15pp
‘Reform of the Dáil’
Printed, bound booklet on Fine Gael policy regarding potential
reforms of the Dáil.
P270/454
March 1980
23pp
‘Working Together: A Charter for Labour Peace’
Printed and bound booklet containing the Fine Gael policy on
industrial relations.
P270/455
May 1980
69pp
‘Aspects of Energy Policy’
Printed, bound policy booklet.
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October 1980
7pp
Proposed National Housing Finance Agency
Fine Gael policy document in which the possibility of establishing a
National Housing Finance Agency is proposed.
P270/457
[October] 1980
3pp
Health and Social Services Discussion Document
A discussion document created for the Fine Gael Ard Fheis. The
Spokesperson is noted as being John Boland.
P270/458
[October] 1980
4pp
Human Rights and Law Reform Discussion Document
A discussion document created for the Fine Gael Ard Fheis. The
Spokesperson is noted as being Michael Keating.
P270/459
November 1980
39pp
‘Action Programme for Education in the 80s’
Printed and bound Fine Gael policy document. Foreword by Edward
A. Collins, T.D., Fine Gael spokesman on Education.
P270/460
April 1981
22pp
‘National Partnership through Equality’
Printed and bound policy document on women, including a preface
by Gemma Hussey, Fine Gael Spokesperson on Women’s Affairs.
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P270/461
1981
32pp
‘A Better Future: Let the Country Win’
A printed and bound outline of the Fine Gael economic programme,
with an introduction by Garret FitzGerald.
P270/462
October 1982
33pp
‘Jobs in the ‘80’s’
Fine Gael’s policy for economic recovery. Printed and bound, with a
foreword by John Bruton T.D., Spokesman on Finance.
P270/463
5 October 1982
65pp
Jobs for the Eighties
A Fine Gael policy document.
P270/464
4 November 1982
10pp
Proposals for Fine Gael Manifesto
Proposals sent by Jim Dorgan, Meath County Council, to Finbarr
Fitzpatrick, General Secretary of Fine Gael for the Manifesto, to be
released in November 1983. A cover letter from Dorgan is included, in
which he writes that he wrote the proposals at the request of John
Bruton but ‘it may be of interest to people other than [him]’.
P270/465
August 1984
24pp
‘Government of Reform: Phase One’
Printed and bound policy booklet outlining Fine Gael’s intentions to
reform all areas of government.
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August 1986
42pp
Employment and living standards
Details of Fine Gael policy on same. The policy committee is listed as
being chaired by Hugh Coveney, with members including Gay
Mitchell, Ivan Yates, Joachim Loughrey, and Denis Cregan.
P270/467
September 1986
61pp
Draft environmental protection policy
Hardbound draft policy document, developed by a policy committee
chaired by Bernard Allen, T.D.
P270/468
[October] 1986
11pp
Discussion documents for 1986 Ard Fheis
Discussion documents on employment, taxation, agriculture, forestry
and fisheries, environment, social and legislative reform, and
education.
P270/469
6 November 1986
2 items
Economic policy
An internal Fine Gael report on the basic problems to be faced in the
Irish economy, and steps that can be taken to address these issues.
Includes a cover letter from [Rona] at the Fine Gael office to Dooge.
P270/470
16 December 1986
2 items
Draft employment policy
Draft policy by Hugh Coveney, Chair of the policy committee.
Includes an original, signed memo from Coveney, one of which was
sent to each member of the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party.
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December 1986
67pp
Employment and living standards policy
Softbound copy of the Fine Gael policy document, developed by the
committee chaired by Hugh Coveney and including Gay Mitchell,
Ivan Yates, Joachim Loughrey and Denis Cregan.
P270/472
7 January 1987
3 items
Position Paper on Women’s Affairs
Paper sent to Dooge at his request by Minister of State Nuala Fennell,
as well as a document detailing her proposals for an Equal Status
Act. Includes an original signed letter from Fennell to Dooge.
P270/473
Not dated
4pp
‘Cherishing Our Children’
Printed policy document on human rights and law reform in
legislation affecting children.
P270/474
Not dated
29pp
‘Winning Through To A Just Society’
Summary of Fine Gael policy.
P270/475
Not dated
4pp
Local broadcasting
Fine Gael policy on same.
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P270/476
Not dated
12pp
Urban affairs
Printed, bound booklet detailing Fine Gael’s policy.
P270/477
Not dated
23pp
Tax Commission
Report of a Fine Gael committee appointed to look at the system of
taxation in Ireland and possible reforms.
P270/478
Not dated
18pp
Natural Resources Policy Group Reports
Reports from the Group on the party policies with regard to forestry,
oil and gas exploration, and fisheries.
P270/479
Not dated
7pp
Agricultural policy
Brief statement of Fine Gael’s approach to the main problems in Irish
agriculture.
3.3 Party Strategy and Elections
P270/480
May 1977
7 items
‘The National Coalition: 4 Years at Work’
A set of promotional pamphlets created for the 1977 general election
campaign, each of which focuses on a different area of government
and the work done by the National Coalition of Fine Gael and Labour
in this area. The individual pamphlets focus on the Taoiseach
(featuring a black and white image of Liam Cosgrave), Finance,
Labour, Foreign Affairs, Industry and Commerce, Education, and
Justice.
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1977
36pp
‘The National Coalition Government Achievements: Programme
for Peace’
Softbound booklet outlining the achievements of the National
Coalition from 1973–77, ahead of the general election.
P270/482
1977
27pp
Strategy notes for 1977 general election
Dooge’s handwritten notes from a meeting formed to look at the Fine
Gael Party’s strategy in its entirety ahead of the election. Areas
covered include the role of the party, its public image, nationalism,
and general political issues. Participants in the meeting are noted by
their initials.
P270/483
14–21 April 1981
9pp
Notes from meeting of the Strategy Committee
Notes taken by Dooge at a meeting of the Committee, mainly on
voting patterns and potential rival candidates. Includes a letter from
Derry Hussey at Fine Gael headquarters to Dooge informing him of
the meeting on 21 April.
P270/484
1981
24pp
Report of the Strategy Committee
Copy of the Committee’s report to the party, handwritten by Dooge.
Includes a summary of recommendations and a list of the allocation
of deputies in constituencies both within Dublin and outside of the
city.
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P270/485
1981
14pp
Summary of ‘Let the Country Win’
A summary of Fine Gael’s policies for the general election.
P270/486
1981
81pp
‘Let the Country Win’
Softbound copy of Fine Gael’s election programme for the 1981
general election.
P270/487
1981
4pp
Questions and answers on a possible coalition
A party document outlining questions on a potential coalition with
the Labour Party which might be posed during the campaign, and
the answers which ought to be given. Sent to Dooge with the
compliments of Liam Hourican, Fine Gael Press and Information
Services.
P270/488
[October] 1981
3 items
Young Fine Gael election material
Young Fine Gael general election leaflet, titled ‘Let’s Face The Future:
We Need You’, an election sticker featuring an image of a bull and the
phrase ‘rarin’ to go’, and a circular from the organisation urging
recipients to vote for Fine Gael in November.
P270/489
November 1982
17pp
‘Fine Gael Priorities’
General election campaign booklet.
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P270/490
[November] 1982
1p
Election 1982
Empty folder for promotional material, featuring an image of Leinster
House on the cover.
P270/491
November 1982
16pp
Fine Gael Priorities
Outline of Fine Gael Party policies, stored in a folder with ‘Election
1982 November’ and the party logo on the cover.
P270/492
[November] 1982
3pp
Scheme for a Youth Campaign
Handwritten notes (not Dooge’s) detailing a plan to target youth
voters, focusing on when and where to plan events.
P270/493
December 1982
31pp
‘Fine Gael/Labour Programme for Government’
A printed booklet outlining the coalition’s full programme for
government in the 1982 general election. Dooge has written his name
on the front cover.
P270/494
1982
75pp
‘We’ve Done The Groundwork – Now Let’s Build The Nation’
A softbound programme for a Fine Gael-Labour government, if
elected, for the term 1982–87. Contains details on: job creation;
social services; arts, culture, sport and the environment; social
reform; women’s rights; political, administrative and judicial reform;
Northern Ireland; and foreign policy and official development aid.
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P270/495
1987
3pp
Senate election 1987
Analysis of the 1982 and 1983 results, and projections for the 1987
vote.
P270/496
9 December 1987
2pp
Young Fine Gael in the 1987 general election campaign
A short report which states that it will be more effective for Young
Fine Gael not to run a separate election campaign, but to highlight
certain issues within the main campaign, and outlines these issues.
3.4 Party Organisation
P270/497
July 1948–May 1950
4 items
Dun
Laoghaire-Rathdown
County
Council
Constituency
Executive
File of material relating to Dooge’s time serving on the Executive.
Includes a report on organisation in the constituency, an annual
report for 1948, rules of organisation for the Executive, and an
agenda for the Annual General Meeting of the Executive.
P270/498
May 1978
17pp
Fine Gael Draft Constitution and Rules
Printed booklet of same for consideration by the Ard Fheis on 19
May.
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P270/499
May 1978
22pp
Proposed modification to amendment to the Fine Gael
Constitution
Printed booklet outlining the proposed modification, submitted by the
President of Fine Gael in accordance with Rule 44 of the existing
Constitution, and to be submitted for consideration at the Ard Fheis
on 19 May.
P270/500
22 October 1983
36pp
Speech by Garret FitzGerald
Text of a speech delivered by FitzGerald at the 60th Fine Gael Ard
Fheis at the Royal Dublin Society in Ballsbridge, Dublin on 22
October 1983. Released by the Fine Gael Press and Information
Services.
P270/501
1986
17pp
Fine Gael officers and delegates
Lists of the Fine Gael officers and delegates for 1986 by branch.
Branches listed include Glasthule, Booterstown, Killiney, Ballybrack,
Loughlinstown,
Shankill,
Conkeen,
Cabinteely,
Monkstown,
Rochestown, Deansgrange, Dun Laoghaire, Foxrock, Stillorgan,
Blackrock, Ballybrack/Watson, Dalkey, and Mounttown.
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4.1 Meetings
P270/502
22 April 1986
6pp
ICEM meetings
Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held at Burlington Road,
Dublin 4.
P270/503
June–November 1987
5 items
ICEM meetings
File of notices, agendas, minutes and other documents related to
meetings of the Executive Committee of the Council as well as the
Annual General Meeting.
P270/504
June–December 1988
4 items
ICEM meetings
File of notices of meetings of the Executive Committee of the Council
as well as the Annual General Meeting.
P270/505
February–December 1989
24 items
ICEM meetings
File of notices, agendas, minutes and other documents related to
meetings of the Executive Committee of the Council as well as the
Annual General Meeting. Also includes an invitation to a luncheon
meeting to discuss the proposed joint North/South European
Movement conference and background information on same (2–9
March, 3 items).
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P270/506
January–November 1990
25 items
ICEM meetings
File of notices, agendas, minutes and other documents related to
meetings of the Executive Committee of the Council as well as the
Annual General Meeting.
P270/507
February–December 1991
18 items
ICEM meetings
File of notices, agendas, minutes and other documents related to
meetings of the Executive Committee of the Council. Also includes
one page of Dooge’s handwritten notes from the meeting on 5 March.
P270/508
January–December 1992
32 items
ICEM meetings
File of notices, agendas, minutes and other documents related to
meetings of the Executive Committee of the Council, as well as the
Annual General Meeting. Also includes several pages of Dooge’s
handwritten notes from various meetings and an attendance list for
Executive Committee meetings from 1991 to 1992.
P270/509
January–November 1993
14 items
ICEM meetings
File of notices, agendas, minutes and other documents related to
meetings of the Executive Committee of the Council. Includes a list of
the Executive Committee members elected for 1993–94.
P270/510
January–December 1994
27 items
ICEM meetings
File of notices, agendas, minutes and other documents related to
meetings of the Executive Committee of the Council as well as the
Annual General Meeting. Includes part of a report by Deloitte and
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Touche on the organisational review of ICEM (June, 8pp), and a copy
of the Presidency conclusions from the European Council meeting in
Essen (9–10 December, 54pp).
P270/511
January–December 1995
35 items
ICEM meetings
File of notices, agendas, minutes and other documents related to
meetings of the Executive Committee of the Council as well as the
Annual General Meeting. Includes an attendance list for Executive
Committee meetings from 1994 to 1995.
P270/512
January–December 1996
25 items
ICEM meetings
File of notices, agendas, minutes and other documents related to
meetings of the Executive Committee of the Council as well as the
Annual General Meeting. The establishment of the Policy and
Programme Committee is noted (13 February, 1p).
P270/513
January–November 1997
32 items
ICEM meetings
File of notices, agendas, minutes and other documents related to
meetings of the Executive Committee and the Policy and Programme
Committee of the Council as well as the Annual General Meeting.
Includes a list of the Executive Committee members elected for 1997–
98.
P270/514
January–December 1998
23 items
ICEM meetings
File of notices, agendas, minutes and other documents related to
meetings of the Executive Committee and the Policy and Programme
Committee of the Council as well as the Annual General Meeting.
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P270/515
21 June 1999
2 items
ICEM meetings
Address by Aland Dukes, Chairman, to the Annual General Meeting
of ICEM at the Westbury Hotel in Dublin (21 June, 2pp), and a list of
the Executive Committee members elected for 1999–2000.
P270/516
April–December 2001
13 items
ICEM meetings
File of notices, agendas, minutes and other documents related to
meetings of the Executive Committee and the Policy Committee of the
Council. Includes extensive handwritten notes taken by Dooge at
several meetings.
P270/517
January–October 2002
26 items
ICEM meetings
File of notices, agendas, minutes and other documents related to
meetings of the Executive Committee and the Policy Committee of the
Council. Includes some handwritten notes taken by Dooge at several
meetings and an attendance list for meetings between 2001 and
2002.
P270/518
February–July 2003
19 items
ICEM meetings
File of notices, agendas, minutes and other documents related to
meetings of the Executive Committee and the Policy Committee of the
Council. Includes a list of scheduled meetings in 2003 and 2004.
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4.2 Reports and Other Council Documents
P270/519
December 1963–October 1991
4 items
1963–82
File of three documents outlining ICEM’s aims and objectives, from
its Memorandum of Association (5 December 1963, 5pp), to its
Declaration of Objectives (17 July 1973, 2pp), and finally its aims
and objectives (November 1982, 1p and October 1991, 1p).
P270/520
November–December 1986
2 items
1986
File of reports and other ICEM documents from 1986. Includes a
paper titled ‘The Single European Act (November 1986, 9pp) and a
draft Directors’ report for the year (December 1986, 8pp).
P270/521
June 1987
3 items
1987
File of reports and other ICEM documents from 1987.
Includes:
 Chairman’s report for 1987, delivered at the Annual General
Meeting (June, 7pp);
 Director’s report for 1987, delivered at the Annual General
Meeting, and an account of the activities of the Council from 1986
to 1987 (June, 12pp);
 report on the European Council meeting in Brussels from 29–30
June (7 July, 17pp).
P270/522
December 1988
2 items
1988
Summary of financial accounts for the year ended 31 December
1988, and ‘Languages for 1992’, an ICEM discussion document with
an introduction by Peter Sutherland.
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P270/523
September–December 1989
3 items
1989
File of reports and other ICEM documents from 1989.
Includes:
 notes on Bill Murphy of Aer Lingus (26 September, 1p);
 press release regarding the Irish Laureate for the 1989 Women of
Europe Award, Gráinne Kenny (17 November, 2pp);
 accounts for the year ended 31 December, 1989 (10pp).
P270/524
June–December 1990
3 items
1990
File of reports and other ICEM documents from 1990.
Includes:
 ‘A Way Forward for ICEM’ by Tom Arnold (24 June, 3pp);
 Director’s report on the activities of the Council between June
1989 and June 1990 (10 July, 14pp);
 Presidency conclusions from the European Council meeting in
Rome (14–15 December, 31pp).
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February–October 1991
8 items
1991
File of reports and other ICEM documents from 1991.
Includes:
 report on a special meeting of the ICEM Executive, sent to Dooge
by Patricia Lawler (27 February, 6pp);
 list of the principal activities undertaken by the Council
(February, 1p);
 review of the functions of the Joint Committee on the secondary
legislation of the European Communities, circulated to Executive
Committee members by Lawler (1 March, 39pp);
 report on a special meeting of the ICEM Executive (23 February,
5pp);
 report by Alan Dukes on the International European Movement
Executive Committee meeting and conference held on 6 June in
London (4 July, 11pp);
 report by Alan Dukes on the meeting of the International
European Movement Executive Committee and Budapest
Congress, and Dr Miriam Hederman-O’Brien’s report on the
Working Session on Education at the Congress (September,
13pp);
 brief notes on the history of the European Movement in Ireland
and an incomplete list of its chairmen and directors (1991, 2pp).
P270/526
January–December 1992
7 items
1992
File of reports and other ICEM documents from 1992.
Includes:
 draft response on economic. monetary and political union for the
forthcoming referendum (28 January, 4pp);
 report of the Defence Group by its Chairman, Eoin Ryan, on
defence in the Maastricht Treaty (28 January, 2pp);
 discussion paper by ICEM Chairman Tom Arnold on ICEM’s
future strategy and programme (3 September, 4pp);
 report of an ICEM corporate planning session (12 September,
5pp);
 list of actions to achieve objectives as defined by the Planning
Sub-Committee (12 September, 3pp);
 Director’s report on the activities of the Council between May
1991 and September 1992 (22 September, 23pp);
 report of the Sub-Committee on Enlargement titled ‘The European
Union and the Challenge of Enlargement’ (December, 22pp).
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January–December 1993
6 items
1993
File of reports and other ICEM documents from 1993.
Includes:
 outline of ICEM’s communications strategy by Ronan Tynan (27
January, 4pp);
 report on European Movement International Executive meeting in
Paris, by Alan Dukes (28 January, 3pp);
 ICEM’s Strategic Plan for 1993–95 by Chairman Tom Arnold (1
February, 5pp);
 proposal to the Department of Education on education for
European citizenship, prepared by the Education Sub-Committee
(6 February, 6pp);
 ICEM newsletter (December, 6pp);
 sample membership form (1993, 2pp).
P270/528
January–December 1994
14 items
1994
File of reports and other ICEM documents from 1994.
Includes:
 report on the Branches of ICEM (18 January, 2pp);
 ICEM newsletter (February, 4pp);
 Branches report for the National Executive (1 March, 2pp);
 Director’s report on the activities of the Council between July
1993 and June 1994 (30 June, 23pp);
 security and defence position paper by Patrick Doyle, including a
signed cover letter from Doyle to Dooge. Written for the White
Paper Submission by the Planning Committee (13 October, 11pp);
 a later draft of Doyle’s paper, again including a signed cover letter
(3 November, 11pp);
 ‘European Security and Defence Policy’, a submission to the Joint
Committee on Foreign Affairs by ICEM (9 November, 15pp);
 submission to the White Paper on Foreign Policy’s Chapter 2,
‘Enlargement of the European Union’ (25 November, 11pp);
 submission to the White Paper on Foreign Policy’s Chapter 3,
‘Economic and Monetary Union’ (25 November, 8pp);
 list of duties for ICEM’s Information and Development Officer (6
December, 1p);
 revised text of the Council’s submission on enlargement of the
European Union to the White Paper on Foreign Policy (9
December, 12pp);
 financial accounts for the year ended 31 December 1994 (13pp);
 income and expenditure account for the year ended 31 December
1994 (12pp);
 an extensive list of European ‘myths’, stories circulated in the
media as being results of European legislation, and a response to
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each from the European Commission. Examples include stories
on curved bananas and cucumbers being banned, and fishermen
being obliged to wear hairnets while on board boats ([1994],
121pp).
January–December 1995
17 items
1995
File of reports and other ICEM documents from 1995.
Includes:
 report on a meeting of the International Executive Committee of
the European Movement in Brussels, by Alan Dukes (27 January,
4pp);
 ICEM policy document which was submitted to the DFA for their
White Paper on Foreign policy (17 February, 37pp);
 ICEM submission to the Economic and Social Research Institute
consultancy study on economic and monetary union (1 March,
9pp);
 a note on ‘Euromyths’ for ICEM, by Raymond Keane, Deputy
Director of the European Commission Representation in Ireland
(23 March, 2pp);
 ICEM submission to the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation (27
March, 2pp);
 report on an International Executive Committee meeting in
Brussels, by Alan Dukes (9 May, 4pp);
 Director’s report on the activities of the Council between June
1994 and May 1995 (25 May, 36pp);
 list of Branch rules (May, 1p);
 ‘A Strategy for Increasing Membership of the European Movement’
by David Hedigan (December, 5pp);
 outline of the planned information campaign between 1995 and
1997 (1995, 2pp).
P270/530
January–December 1996
10 items
1996
File of reports and other ICEM documents from 1996.
Includes:
 proposal for collaboration of the Cork branch of ICEM with a
significant corporate in the region (3 January, 6pp);
 report on economic and monetary union by Deirdre Healy (5
January, 2pp);
 report on economic and monetary union by an unknown author
(26 February, 6pp);
 report of the Policy and Programme Committee meeting of 11 April
(12 April, 3pp);
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report of the Policy and Programme Committee meeting of 6 June,
including a draft of a single currency questions and answers
booklet (21 June, 10pp);
memorandum to the members of the Executive Committee
enclosing the final draft for the booklet ‘The Single Currency
Explained’ (19 August, 11pp);
Euro Newsline, issue 3 for Autumn 1996, a newsletter of ICEM
([September] 1996, 4pp);
draft financial statements for the year ended 31 December 1996
(7pp);
brief Branch reports from the Cork, Mid-West, Dublin, NorthEast, Galway, North-West, Kerry, and South-East branches (1996,
2pp);
‘Make Europe Your Business’, a colour printed circular for
distribution to businesses inviting them to become corporate
members of ICEM (1996, 6pp).
January–December 1997
6 items
1997
File of reports and other ICEM documents from 1997.
Includes:
 two drafts for discussion of Memoranda and Articles of
Association of ICEM, prepared by McCann FitzGerald solicitors,
Dublin 1 (24 January–April, 2 items);
 report of the Policy and Programme Committee meeting of 29
January (30 January, 3pp);
 report of the Policy and Programme Committee meeting of 30 April
(30 April, 2pp);
 referendum preparation and Branch training based on the
possibility of a referendum in November 1997 (13 May, 2pp);
 reports of the meeting of the Comite Executif and the Conseil
Federal of the International European Movement, both held on 11
July in Lisbon, by Maurice O’Connell (29 July, 2 items);
 financial statements for the year ending 31 December 1997
(15pp).
P270/532
May–December 1998
2 items
1998
‘Ireland’s Foreign Relations in 1997’ by Nicholas Rees of the
University of Limerick (1 May, 21pp), and a draft paper on
regionalization by Deirdre Healy (1 December, 2pp).
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P270/533
March–December 2001
12 items
2001
File of reports and other ICEM documents from 2001.
Includes:
 ‘EU Enlargement: Your Questions Answered’, a printed
information leaflet by ICEM (March, 23pp);
 ICEM newsletter for September (3pp);
 ICEM newsletter for October (9pp);
 ICEM’s submission to the National Forum on Europe (23
November, 9pp);
 financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2001 (11pp);
 ‘Europe Explained: An Easy Guide to the EU’, an overview of a
training course offered by ICEM (2001, 3pp);
 lists of companies to be targeted by ICEM for fundraising (2001, 3
items).
P270/534
February–December 2002
15 items
2002
File of reports and other ICEM documents from 2002.
Includes:
 report to the National Council regarding forthcoming meetings (12
February, 1p);
 response to the interim report from the National Forum on Europe
(25 February, 1p);
 ICEM submission to the Joint Committee on European Affairs on
the enlargement of the European Union (28 February, 5pp);
 ICEM newsletter for February (12pp);
 amended draft of the ICEM submission to the Irish delegates to
the Convention on the Future of Europe. Includes a fax cover
sheet to Dooge from Eimear Ní Bhroin, Press and Information
Officer of ICEM (5 March, 3pp);
 fifth draft of an ICEM briefing paper on the Charter of
Fundamental Rights (March, 3pp);
 ICEM draft submission response to the European Commission’s
White Paper on European Governance. This copy features
handwritten annotations (March, 4pp);
 ICEM newsletter for March (2pp);
 report of the Policy Committee to the Council on their last three
meetings. Includes a fax cover sheet from Dooge to Ní Bhroin (8
April, 3pp);
 summary of the opinions of European Movement members on the
future of Europe ([1 May], 2pp);
 ICEM newsletter for June (2pp);
 annual report on the activities of ICEM between June 2001 and
June 2002 (24 June, 33pp);
 financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2002 (14pp);
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‘Getting To Know Our New EU Neighbours’, a printed leaflet by
ICEM (2002, 2pp);
draft budget for 2002 ([2002], 4pp).
January–July 2003
16 items
2003
File of reports and other ICEM documents from 2002.
Includes:
 outline of the ‘Getting To Know Our New EU Neighbours’
campaign (January, 2pp);
 first ICEM submission to the Convention on the Future of Europe
(January, 2pp);
 budget options for 2003 for ICEM ([January], 4pp);
 ICEM newsletter for January–February (3pp);
 ‘The Future of Europe’, an ICEM briefing paper (February, 14pp);
 second submission to the Convention on the Future of Europe
(March, 4pp);
 submission proposal to the Communicating Europe Task Force for
a media project (March, 2pp);
 ICEM newsletter for March–April (3pp);
 ICEM newsletter for May (11pp);
 ICEM newsletter for June (3pp);
 annual report of the activities of ICEM between June 2002 and
June 2003 (23 June, 41pp);
 ICEM newsletter for July (13pp);
 list of ICEM staff responsibilities for 2003 (2003, 2pp);
 a short document outlining the purpose and aims of ICEM and
listing the members of its Executive ([2003], 1p).
4.3 Seminars, Conferences and Lectures
P270/536
September–November 1988
3 items
1988
File of material relating to events planned by or relating to ICEM.
Includes an invitation from Patricia Lawler to T. Hardiman to speak
at a conference at Queens University, Belfast titled ‘North/South
European Movement’, and a schedule for same (September, 2 items).
Also includes the text of a speech by Maurice F. Doyle, Governor of
the Central Bank, titled ‘Economic and Monetary Union: The
Regional Dimension’ (18 November, 16pp).
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P270/537
June–September 1989
14 items
1989
File of material relating to events planned by or relating to ICEM.
Includes:
 invitation to a reception in celebration of ‘Schuman Day’, the
anniversary of the Declaration of Robert Schuman, in Dublin (9
May, 1p);
 leaflet advertising ‘Beyond The Plan: The Community’s New
Structural Policies and Regional Development in Ireland’, an ICEM
conference at University College Dublin (19 May, 6pp);
 draft schedule for a proposed ICEM one day seminar on European
Community Structural Funds (May, 2pp);
 invitation to a talk on ‘Soviet EC Relations in the 1980 – The
Challenge of Change’ to be given by Gennadii Vasilevich Uranov,
Ambassador of the Soviet Union, in Dublin (7 June, 1p);
 schedule, conference papers, and comments collected after a
conference titled ‘E.C. Transport Policy For 1992 – Problem or
Opportunity’, held in Belfast (27 September, 3 items);
 a press release and two circulars regarding nominations for the
Women of Europe Award 1989 (9–13 October, 3 items);
 invitation to a press reception to mark the launch of the 1989
ICEM European of the Year Award (2 November, 1p);
 invitation to the announcement of the Irish Laureate for the 1989
Women of Europe Award. The address and telephone number of a
Stephen Daly are noted on the reverse of the invitation (17
November, 2pp);
 nomination form for the ICEM European of the Year Award (1989,
4pp);
 document outlining the biography of Grainne Kenny, Irish
laureate of the Women of Europe Award 1989 (1989, 4pp).
P270/538
January–December 1990
7 items
1990
File of material relating to events planned by or relating to ICEM.
Includes:
 draft schedule and list of basic budget requirements for a
conference titled ‘The Environmental Challenge – Community
Policies and Survival’, planned for June 1990 (22–23 January,
5pp);
 draft programme for a conference titled ‘The Future of Our
Changing Europe’, held at University College Dublin (8 March,
1p);
 schedules and conference papers from a conference titled
‘Economic and Monetary Union’, held at University College Dublin
(13 November, 3 items);
 invitation to the announcement of the Irish laureate for the 1990
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Woman of Europe Award (21 November, 1p);
nomination form for the ICEM European of the Year Award
([December], 5pp).
January–December 1991
31 items
1991
File of material relating to events planned by or relating to ICEM.
Includes:
 circular advertising the conference ‘Developing The Rural
Economy: The Role of Structural Funds’, to be held in Dublin (18
January, 1p);
 address by President Mary Robinson at the presentation of the
ICEM European of the Year Award (28 January, 5pp);
 remarks by Taoiseach Charles Haughey responding to his
nomination as European of the Year by ICEM, and closing
remarks made at the presentation ceremony by G.T. Paul Conlon,
chairman and Chief Executive of Coras Iompar Éireann, sponsor
of the awards (28 January, 7pp);
 circular and registration form for ‘Languages For Europe’, an
afternoon conference in Dublin (13 February, 2pp);
 programme of ICEM activities scheduled between February and
June 1991 (February, 1p);
 letter from Maurice O’Connell to Patricia Lawler discussing
forthcoming conferences (2 March, 1p);
 invitation to a St. Patrick’s Eve reception at Trinity College Dublin
(15 March, 1p);
 schedule and budget requirements for the conference ‘The
Environmental Challenge – Community Policies and Survival’ (22–
23 June, 5pp);
 call for nominations for the Irish Laureate for the Women of
Europe Award 1991 (September, 1p);
 invitation to a Dublin Branch open forum on the topic ‘Does the
European Movement have a future?’ (1 October, 1p);
 notice and schedule of the conference ‘European Political Union’,
held at University College Dublin. Also includes conference papers
from speakers including Taoiseach Charles Haughey, John
Bruton T.D., Professor Patrick Keatinge, and Ruairi Quinn, T.D.
(6 November, 14 items);
 invitation to the announcement of the Irish Laureate for the
Woman of Europe Award (26 November, 1p);
 joint DEVCO/ICEM conference on consultancy opportunities in
Eastern Europe, funded by the multilateral agencies (29
November, 2pp);
 list of forthcoming ICEM events in 1991 and 1992 ([November],
1p);
 invitation to a meeting on the reaction to the Maastricht Treaty
(11 December, 1p);
 invitation to the inaugural meeting of the South East Branch of
ICEM (16 December, 1p);
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invitation to a public seminar held by the Cork Branch on the
Maastricht Summit (17 December, 1p).
January–December 1992
13 items
1992
File of material relating to events planned by or relating to ICEM.
Includes:
 list of ICEM events from January to April ([January], 1p);
 circular advertising a debate titled ‘Does Europe Need A Common
Defence Policy?’, to be chaired by Dooge (19 February, 1p);
 opening remarks at the ‘Does Europe Need A Common Defence
Policy?’ debate by Tom Arnold, as well as Professor Brigid Laffan’s
remarks from the same debate (19 February, 2 items);
 list of forthcoming ICEM events from February to May ([February],
1p);
 circular advertising an ICEM debate on ‘Central and Eastern
Europe – How Should The European Community Respond?’ (16
March, 1p);
 circular advertising an ICEM debate titled ‘What Will The New
Europe Mean For Its Citizens?’ (15 April, 1p);
 list of forthcoming ICEM events from April to November ([April],
1p);
 draft conference programme for the conference ‘Languages For
Europe’ (13 May, 1p);
 call for nominations for the Irish laureate for the Women of
Europe Award ([October], 1p);
 list of forthcoming ICEM events from October 1992 to February
1993 ([October], 1p);
 launch of the ICEM European of the Year Award (10 November,
7pp);
 nomination form for the ICEM European of the Year Award 1992
([December], 5pp).
P270/541
February–December 1993
3 items
1993
File of material relating to events planned by or relating to ICEM.
Includes:
 list of forthcoming ICEM events from February to April
([February], 1p);
 list of forthcoming ICEM events from December 1993 to May 1994
([December], 6pp);
 nomination form for the ICEM European of the Year Award 1993
([December], 5pp).
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January–December 1994
16 items
1994
File of material relating to events planned by or relating to ICEM.
Includes:
 press release regarding a public seminar organised by the Cork
Branch, titled ‘The Future Role of the European parliament’, with
Dooge featured as a speaker (13 January, 1p);
 programme for the conference ‘Maximising the Social Impact of
the National Plan’, held at Dublin Castle and featuring an opening
address by Taoiseach Albert Reynolds (31 January, 6pp);
 list of forthcoming ICEM events from January to May ([January],
1p);
 cover letter from Patricia Lawler for an invitation to the ICEM
European of the Year Award presentation reception (January, 1p);
 invitation to and programme for the convention of the
International European Movement, to be held in Brussels and
based on the topic ‘The European Union and the Federal
Constitution’ (24–25 March, 8pp);
 a report on this convention by Alan Dukes ([March], 11pp);
 material relating to a conference in Dublin Castle titled ‘Europe:
Its Peoples, Parliament and Democracy’. Includes a programme,
list of speakers, list of attendees, and six pages of Dooge’s
handwritten notes (15 April, 5 items);
 invitation to a reception in honour of Mr De Ceuster, Director of
Personnel at the College of Europe (June, 1p);
 registration form for tickets to the 40th Anniversary of the
European Movement Gala Celebration, to be held at the
Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin ([September], 1p);
 invitation to a joint meeting of the Dublin Branch and the Ireland
– Japan Association on ‘A View of Japanese Business’ (11
October, 1p);
 invitation to a briefing luncheon on ‘Finland and the Enlargement
of the Union’, which will be attended by Ulf-Erik Slotte, the
Finnish Ambassador (27 October, 1p);
 draft outline and budget plan for a 40th Anniversary Concert, to be
held in the National Concert Hall ([November], 2pp);
 lecture by Per Ole Jodahl, the Swedish Ambassador, given at an
ICEM briefing on ‘Sweden and the Enlargement of the Union’ (22
November, 11pp);
 invitation to a briefing luncheon on ‘Norway Outside the European
Union’, to be attended by Jan Ostern, the Norwegian Ambassador
(13 December, 1p);
 nomination form for the ICEM European of the Year Award
([December], 5pp).
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February–December 1995
19 items
1995
File of material relating to events planned by or relating to ICEM.
Includes:
 list of upcoming ICEM public seminars on the DFA’s White Paper
on Foreign Policy ([February], 1p);
 material relating to a seminar on ‘The Common Foreign and
Security Policy of the European Union’, including an invitation, a
draft programme, a list of participants, the opening address by
the Tánaiste, Dick Spring, and sixteen pages of Dooge’s
handwritten notes (16 February, 5 items);
 list of forthcoming ICEM events for 1995 ([February], 2pp);
 material relating to a European Movement joint conference with
the Northern Ireland Council, titled ‘Energy in a Small Economy’,
including an application form to attend, a programme, and an
address by Michael N. Conlon, chairman of Bord Gais Éireann (3
March, 3 items);
 invitation to a seminar on ‘Japan – A Model to Emulate’ (6 March,
1p);
 invitation to a briefing luncheon on ‘The Information Society –
Irish Feast Or Famine’ (24 April, 1p);
 invitation to a tour of the National Botanic Gardens (20 May, 1p);
 invitation to a briefing luncheon on ‘Ireland and Europe – Political
and Military Crossroads’ (22 May, 1p);
 programme for a conference titled ‘Scenarios for a Single Currency
and EMU – European and Irish perspectives’ (21 June, 1p);
 invitation to a briefing luncheon on ‘Reflections on the European
Summit in Cannes’ (30 June, 1p);
 list of forthcoming ICEM events in 1995 ([June], 2pp);
 draft proposals for ICEM debates in 1995 and 1996 ([September],
3pp);
 invitation to a briefing luncheon on ‘Decisions of the European
Summit in Madrid’ (19 December, 1p).
P270/544
January–December 1996
19 items
1996
File of material relating to events planned by or relating to ICEM.
Includes:
 list of forthcoming ICEM events ([January], 1p);
 material relating to a joint European Movement and European
Parliament conference , ‘Defending European Citizens’ Rights’,
held in Dublin. Includes an invitation and programme, list of
attendees, speeches by Pat Farrell (chairman of ICEM), Kevin
Murphy, Edward Newman (MEP), and Jacob Soderman (European
Ombudsman), as well as three pages of Dooge’s handwritten
notes. Also includes a note from Vivienne Whyte to Dooge inviting
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him to a small reception for Soderman (14 February–4 March, 9
items);
programme for the national conference of ICEM, the theme of
which is ‘EMU and Security Policy – The Core Issues’ (22 March,
6pp);
list of forthcoming ICEM events in April and May ([March], 1p);
list of meetings, conferences and seminars to be held in Ireland
and hosted by Ministers, officials or Government agencies during
Ireland’s European Presidency (11 April, 7pp);
proposed changes to the briefing lunches format (April, 1p);
invitation to a briefing luncheon on ‘Consumer Rights in Europe’
(17 May, 2p);
invitation to a briefing luncheon on ‘Reflections on the Florence
Summit’ (27 June, 2pp);
invitation to the European Movement’s International Conference,
‘The Citizen Within the European Union’ ([November], 3pp);
invitation to a briefing luncheon on ‘Future Reform of the
Common Agricultural Policy’ (28 November, 2pp);
invitation to the launch of the 1996 European of the Year Award
(28 November, 1p).
January–June 1997
8 items
1997
File of material relating to events planned by or relating to ICEM.
Includes:
 proposals for corporate and briefing lunches for 1997 ([January],
1p);
 list of nominees selected as finalists for the 1997 European of the
Year Award ([January], 2pp);
 invitation to the European of the Year Award ceremony at the
Conrad Hotel in Dublin, together with a programme of the event
and Dooge’s table number (16 February, 3 items);
 draft outline of a conference on European monetary union (March,
1p);
 invitation to a reception in celebration of ‘Europe Day’ (May, 1p);
 invitation to a briefing luncheon on ‘The Amsterdam Summit: A
New Treaty for Europe’ (19 June, 2pp).
P270/546
February–December 1998
12 items
1998
File of material relating to events planned by or relating to ICEM.
Includes:
 list of public meetings to be held throughout February and March
(24 February, 1p);
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invitation to a public lecture by José-Maria Gil-Robles, President
of the European Parliament, with a biography of Gil-Robles (24
February, 5pp);
invitation to a briefing luncheon which features a talk by Veronica
Sutherland, Ambassador of the United Kingdom, on ‘Steering
Europe Towards the Future’. Also includes a copy of this address
(25 March, 2 items);
invitations to public meetings on ‘Europe – the Millennium and
Beyond’ (30 March and 21 April, 2 items);
‘The Priorities of the Austrian Presidency of the European Union’,
a speech by the Austrian Ambassador, Dr Michael Breisky (16
July, 7pp);
forthcoming ICEM events in 1998 (14 September, 4pp);
invitation to the launch of the Dublin Branch Programme 1998–
99 (30 September, 3pp);
invitation to a public meeting on ‘EMU – the Euro and Your
Pension’ (21 October, 1p);
invitation to the ICEM national conference ‘Agenda 2000: Choices
and Challenges for Ireland in the New Millennium’ (13 November,
2pp);
notice of a public meeting on ‘The Euro and You’ (1 December,
2pp).
May–December 2001
5 items
2001
File of material relating to events planned by or relating to ICEM.
Includes:
 invitation to a reception in celebration of Europe Day (8 May, 1p);
 invitation to a discussion luncheon on ‘EU Enlargement and the
Future of the EU – the Austrian Perspective’ (1 October, 2pp);
 list of ICEM events held in November and December, and a list of
forthcoming events (December, 7pp);
 nomination form for the 2001 ICEM European of the Year Award
(December, 6pp);
 information document on ICEM training courses ([2001], 2pp).
P270/548
[January]–[December] 2002
6 items
2002
File of material relating to events planned by or relating to ICEM.
Includes:
 list of major events scheduled for 2002 ([January], 2pp);
 speech by Minister for Finance Charlie McCreevy at an ICEM
patrons’ luncheon (1 February, 4pp);
 invitation to a briefing and discussion dinner featuring an address
by Commissioner David Byrne titled ‘From Nice to Dublin’, a copy
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of which is also included (21 March, 2 items);
an outline of three Commission-funded events for 2002 (17 April,
2pp);
a list of the main activities undertaken by ICEM in 2002
([December], 1p).
January–July 2003
11 items
2003
File of material relating to events planned by or relating to ICEM.
Includes:
 programme of events for ICEM in 2003 ([January], 3pp);
 list of forthcoming ICEM events in 2003 (11 March, 2pp);
 material relating to an ICEM conference on ‘The Charter of
Fundamental Rights’, held in Dublin. Includes an invitation,
programme, and a softbound collection of consultation documents
(21 March, 3 items);
 invitation to a Europe Day 2003 Gala Dinner, and a list of
confirmed attendees (9 May, 2 items);
 material relating to a roundtable discussion held on the occasion
of the visit of Mircea Dan Geoana, Romanian Foreign Minister,
including handwritten notes by Dooge and biographical
information on Geoana (15 July, 4 items);
 booking form for ICEM training days on ‘The Future of Europe’
([July], 2pp);
 list of upcoming ICEM training courses (July, 3pp).
4.4 European Elections and Treaties
P270/550
March–April 1992
5 items
Maastricht Treaty Referendum
Includes:
 letter to Executive Committee members from Chairman Tom
Arnold, bringing them up to date on ICEM’s preparation for the
referendum campaign (24 March, 1p);
 draft ‘Questions and Answers’ document on the Treaty, circulated
by ICEM Information and Policy Coordinator Martin Mackin (3
April, 2 items);
 draft ICEM manifesto for the referendum, titled ‘Maastricht – The
Way Ahead’. Features some handwritten annotations by Dooge
(1992, 5pp);
 ICEM manifesto for the ratification of the Treaty. Features some
handwritten annotations by Dooge (1992, 9pp);
 ‘The Guide to Maastricht’, an ICEM information document (1992,
18pp).
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March–[June] 1994
3 items
European Parliament Elections
Documents prepared by ICEM for the 1994 European Parliament
campaign.
Includes:
 ‘Your Parliament Your Voice in Europe’, circulated by ICEM
Information Officer Patrick Doyle (1 March, 2 items);
 ‘The European Parliament: A Voice for a People’s Europe’ (1994,
4pp);
 ‘Your Parliament Your Voice in Europe’, a printed questions and
answers booklet on the elections ([June], 14pp).
P270/552
October 1997–May 1998
7 items
Amsterdam Treaty Referendum
Documents relating to the 1994 European Parliament campaign.
Includes:
 ICEM comments on the draft Treaty ([1997], 2pp);
 briefing day on the referendum campaign for ICEM Branches, at
which Dooge is a speaker (4 October 1997, 1p);
 softbound transcript of a presentation by the Institute of
European Affairs to the Joint Committee on European Affairs on
the Amsterdam Treaty (25 March 1998, 36pp);
 document outlining ICEM’s reaction to the Treaty (1998, 3pp);
 ‘The Amsterdam Treaty’, a policy paper of ICEM (January 1998,
18pp);
 ‘Keep Europe Working For YOU’, an ICEM guide to the Treaty
(February 1998, 48pp);
 press invitation to a final press conference of the Treaty (13 May
1998, 1p);
 ICEM circular to members discussing the Irish Yes vote to the
Treaty (May 1998, 2pp).
P270/553
May–[November] 2002
14 items
Nice Treaty Referendum
Documents prepared by ICEM for the second Nice Treaty referendum
in 2002.
Includes:
 information booklet from the Referendum Commission on ‘The EU
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and how it works’, distributed ahead of the second Nice Treaty
(2002, 8pp);
Dooge’s handwritten notes from an ICEM discussion day on the
referendum campaign (25 May, 17pp);
Government information guide on the Treaty of Nice and the
Seville Declarations (21 June, 16pp);
a draft advertisement to be placed in the Irish Catholic to refute
allegations about the Nice Treaty by Father John Brady of the ‘No
to Nice’ movement. Includes a fax cover sheet from Dooge to
Patricia Lawler (11 August, 2 items);
Nice Treaty information note by ICEM (August, 19pp);
invitation to a discussion meeting of sectoral representatives on
the Nice Treaty, and a short report of the meeting (17–21
September, 2 items);
copy of a fax sent by Patricia Lawler to Padraig Flynn in relation to
a presentation and luncheon titled ‘Nice – What Is At Stake?’, at
which Flynn has agreed to speak, along with former
Commissioners including Peter Sutherland, Ray MacSharry, and
Patrick Hillery (30 September–7 October, 3pp);
invitation to a reception to celebrate the success of the Nice Treaty
information campaign (24 October, 1p);
softbound ICEM report on the Nice Treaty information campaign
2002, which includes copies of information notes distributed by
ICEM ([November], 60pp).
4.5 Correspondence
P270/554
19 February 1987
1p
1987
ICEM correspondence from 1987, consisting of a letter from
Executive Director Michael Hoey discussing Jacques Delors’ ‘Vision
of the Future’ for Europe.
P270/555
10–11 November 1988
2 items
1988
File of ICEM correspondence from 1988, consisting of circulars from
the Director, Patricia Lawler, on routine Council matters such as the
ICEM European of the Year Award and discussion documents.
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April–November 1989
8 items
1989
File of ICEM correspondence from 1989, consisting mainly of
circulars from Patricia Lawler on routine Council matters such as the
ICEM European of the Year Award, ICEM events and discussion
documents. Also includes several personal letters of thanks to Dooge
for his participation in ICEM and in specific events, and a copy of
Peter Brennan’s briefing note on ‘Ireland and the EC Structural
Funds’ (30 November, 2 items).
P270/557
January–November 1990
14 items
1990
File of ICEM correspondence from 1990, consisting mainly of
circulars from Patricia Lawler on routine Council matters such as the
ICEM European of the Year Award, ICEM events and discussion
documents. Also includes several personal letters of thanks to Dooge
for his participation in ICEM as a Vice-President of the Council, and
for his participation in specific events.
P270/558
January–December 1991
13 items
1991
File of ICEM correspondence from 1991, consisting mainly of
circulars from Patricia Lawler on routine Council matters such as the
ICEM European of the Year Award, ICEM events and discussion
documents, and occasionally enclosing copies of the Irish Business
Bureau newsletter. Also includes several personal letters of thanks to
Dooge for his participation in ICEM.
P270/559
January–November 1992
17 items
1992
File of ICEM correspondence from 1992, consisting mainly of
circulars from Patricia Lawler on routine Council matters such as the
ICEM European of the Year Award, ICEM events and discussion
documents, and occasionally enclosing copies of the Irish Business
Bureau newsletter and the Hygeia newsletter. Also includes several
personal letters of thanks to Dooge for his participation in ICEM
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P270/560
January–November 1993
8 items
1993
File of ICEM correspondence from 1993, consisting mainly of
circulars from Patricia Lawler on routine Council matters such as the
ICEM European of the Year Award, ICEM events and discussion
documents, and occasionally enclosing copies of the Irish Business
Bureau newsletter. Also includes several personal letters to Dooge in
relation to ICEM business, including a notification of his re-election
as Honorary President.
P270/561
January–December 1994
17 items
1994
File of ICEM correspondence from 1994, consisting mainly of
circulars from Patricia Lawler on routine Council matters such as the
ICEM European of the Year Award, ICEM events and discussion
documents, and occasionally enclosing copies of the Irish Business
Bureau newsletter. Also includes several personal letters to Dooge in
relation to ICEM business, including a notification of his re-election
as Honorary President.
P270/562
February–December 1995
24 items
1995
File of ICEM correspondence from 1995, consisting mainly of
circulars from Patricia Lawler on routine Council matters such as the
ICEM European of the Year Award, ICEM events and discussion
documents, and occasionally enclosing copies of the Irish Business
Bureau newsletter. Also includes several personal letters to Dooge in
relation to ICEM business, including a copy of the Irish Farmers’
Association submission on the future development of the European
Union (3 April, 18pp), notification of his re-election as Honorary
President.
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January–December 1996
9 items
1996
File of ICEM correspondence from 1996, consisting mainly of
circulars from Patricia Lawler on routine Council matters, and
occasionally enclosing copies of the Irish Business Bureau newsletter.
Also includes several personal letters to Dooge in relation to ICEM
business, including a notification of his re-election as Honorary
President.
P270/564
January–May 1997
8 items
1997
File of ICEM correspondence from 1997, consisting mainly of
circulars from Patricia Lawler on routine Council matters such as the
ICEM European of the Year Award, ICEM events, membership, and
discussion documents. Also includes several personal letters to
Dooge in relation to ICEM business, including a notification of his reelection as Honorary President.
P270/565
January–November 1998
14 items
1998
File of ICEM correspondence from 1998, consisting mainly of
circulars from Patricia Lawler on routine Council matters such as the
ICEM European of the Year Award, ICEM events, membership, and
discussion documents. Also includes several personal letters to
Dooge in relation to ICEM business, including a notification of his reelection as Honorary President.
P270/566
1999
2pp
1999
Circular from Patricia Lawler updating ICEM members on recent
news, such as the election of the National Council and the election of
the Officer Board.
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August–November 2001
6 items
2001
File of ICEM correspondence from 2001, consisting mainly of
circulars from Patricia Lawler on routine Council matters such as the
ICEM European of the Year Award, ICEM events, and membership.
Also includes several personal letters to Dooge in relation to ICEM
business, including a notification of his re-election as Honorary
President.
P270/568
April–October 2002
3 items
2002
File of ICEM correspondence from 2002, consisting of a draft of ‘Ten
Questions Concerning the Future of Europe’, sent by Eimear Ní
Bhróin, Press and Information Officer, (10 April, 2 items), fax cover
sheet for a paper on neutrality (not included) from Kate Healy (16
July, 1p), and a notification of a National Council meeting (31
October, 1p).
P270/569
March–July 2003
8 items
2003
File of ICEM correspondence from 2003, consisting mainly of
circulars from Patricia Lawler on routine Council matters such as
fundraising, ICEM events, and notification of her intention to take
early retirement. Also includes several personal letters to Dooge in
relation to ICEM business, including a notification of his re-election
as Honorary President.
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